A Review of Embedded Systems Education in the Arduino Age: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Abstract

Abstract-In this paper, the subject of embedded systems education in the Arduino age is examined. Arduino is an open-source microcontroller platform that has been widely popular in the past decade among hobbyists and academics. Arduino is increasingly being adopted in courses that span different disciplines in schools and universities. As a result, numerous papers are being published every year in different engineering education conferences and journals reporting the integration of Arduino in teaching. In this work, the impact of Arduino on embedded systems education is investigated. First, challenges facing embedded systems education are identified from the literature. Second, different Arduino teaching integration methodologies reported in the literature are surveyed and analyzed. Third, the question whether Arduino successfully addresses embedded education challenges or not is discussed taking both surveyed findings and recent market trends into consideration. Finally, a number of openended research directions are proposed.

Improving the Scalability and Replicability of Embedded Systems Remote Laboratories Through a Cost-Effective Architecture

“…Remote laboratories are a fundamental tool for the education of embedded systems, allowing access to experimentation with the latest devices without the need for a continuous update of traditional hands-on laboratories. The Arduino platform is considered by experts to be the perfect tool for approaching the development of embedded systems [33], [34]. Despite the low cost of development systems based on this platform, having a remote laboratory provides the educator with an approachable tool that offers total abstraction of the hardware and facilitates access to the software development cycle required by the technology [35].…”

Development of Arduino-Yun-based JavaScript Logic Expression Programmable IoT for Automation System

“…Microcontrollers such as Arduino (1) are widely applied in many fields, from the academe to industry. (2)(3)(4)(5)(6) Many researchers have used Arduino as a microcontroller in their research. (7,8) Arduino is produced in various types, and each type or a combination of various types can be selected to support a particular experiment, as explained by Louis, in whose paper various Arduino boards were described as well as their implementation.…”

Implementation of Arduino Simulator ADVIS Visualizing the Value of Voltage on the Circuit

“…One of the educational materials to learn the embedded technologies is Arduino. Arduino is used around the world as learning kits [2,3]. We can learn embedded technologies by designing a circuit and controlling the circuit by programming.…”