In the last fifteen years, the technological education has been essentially based on digital technology, leaving aside the use of concrete material. Still having excellent simulators of the physical world, working with concrete material allows the development of cognitive structures that digital doesn't offer. Moreover, these didactic resources allow highly participative group dynamics that hav...

In this work, we look at the Arduino as a design platform for a course on embedded systems and ask the question, is the Arduino platform suitable for teaching computer engineers and computer scientists an embedded system course with? To examine this question, we describe a project based learning embedded system course that we have taught and identify which topics are covered in it compared to t...

Additive manufacturing, such as fused deposition modeling (FDM), has been increasingly employed to produce microfluidic platforms due to ease of use, wide distribution of affordable 3D printers and relatively inexpensive materials for printing. In this work, we discuss fabrication and testing of an FDM-printed fully automated colorimetric enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) designed to de...

This paper designs an intelligent guidance system, based on wireless sensor networks, for efficient parking in parking lots. The proposed system consists of a parking space allocation subsystem, a parking space monitoring subsystem, a driving guidance subsystem, and a vehicle detection subsystem. In the system, we propose a novel and effective virtual coordinate system for sensing and displayin...

To feasibly achieve economical and satisfactory robust velocity tracking of an induction machine (IM), we propose an Arduino-implemented intelligent speed controller. Because a voltage/frequency controlled IM framework is simple and well suited for being controlled by the proposed speed controller, it is adopted herein. Taking into account easy implementation and good performance, we design the...

The development of an low cost acquisition system of S-EMG signals which are reliable, comfortable for the user and with high mobility shows to be a relevant proposition in modern biomedical engineering scenario. In the study, the sampling capacity of the Arduino microcontroller Atmel Atmega328 with an A / D converter with 10-bit resolution and its reconstructing capability of a signal of surfa...

A novel controller product design of remote fish based on Arduino Duemilanove platform is proposed. This system is mainly made up of control system and wireless module. The principle diagram of circuit connection between APC-220 and Arduino is investigated. Connection between APC and computer is described in detail. Then the software flow chart of the controller and its corresponding code are a...

3D printers are tools utilized to create real 3D samples using the 3D files within your computer. The first feasibility and idea of such tools dates back to 1950. The very first sketch of 3D printers was presented in 1980s called "Rapid Prototyping" and the first sample was developed by Charles Hall and it was recorded with the name of the same scientist. But the current 3D printers were fi...

Studying animal behavior in the lab requires reliable delivering stimulations and monitoring responses. We constructed a comprehensive behavioral platform (ArControl: Arduino Control Platform) that was an affordable, easy-to-use, high-performance solution combined software and hardware components. The hardware component was consisted of an Arduino UNO board and a simple drive circuit. As for so...