Electronics Teaching Kit
A pocket sized kit of portable electronics labs
This project came about after repeatedly needing examples for undergraduate students in my mechatronics labs.
This project focused on creating a small set of prebuilt labs that needed minal breadboard rewiring between examples. After TAing a few semesters of mechatronics classes, helping host middle school students on stem day, and visiting the local high school, I found that having a small demo kit went a long way toward explaining what went on in our lab. Although Opportunity garnered the most interest from prospective students, many still had questions about the process and wanted an inside look into how it worked. Cue the teaching kit. This kit let me structure a few easily swapable, interactive examples that were simple enough to explain to those foreign to the microelectronics.
LAB 1: Voltage and Resistance
This lab was used to explain simple circuit creation and resistance to control an LED
LAB 2: Analog and Digital IO
This lab was used to explain embedded IO and it's applications
LAB 3: Servo Control
This lab was used to expand on the IO experiment by implementing a simple open loop controller
LAB 4: RGB LED Control
This lab was used to expose students to the concepts of Pulse Width Modulation