Engineering in Educational Institutions: Standards for Arduino Robots as an Opportunity to Occupy an Important Niche in Educational Robotics in the Context of Manufacturing 4.0
Olena Hrybiuk, Olena Vedyshcheva, Petro Lukavyi, Anton Ivaniuk, Natalia V. Kulish · 2020
The article reflects the views on the development of the engineering area of education and, in particular, its robotic vector. We do not claim to be “the ultimate truth”, but the issue is urgent and it requires extensive coverage and discussion in the community in the context of the development of the edu- cational field of Technology. The question of the methodology and technics on the basis of which robotics courses will be taught, as well as design and con- struction, is considered. Within the CBLE “Clever” experimental study, an ex- cellent construct and a huge number of author’s methodological guidelines were approved, tested and worked out. Educational designers are used, including dur- ing the engineering solutions prototyping. We focus not only on Lego products. There is a “technological boom” in the development of free software and hard- ware platforms, in particular, this is due to the appearance of the Arduino board in its various forms. It really gave rise to a “breakthrough” wave in technical creative work. Robbo-ScratchDuino, mgBot, and hundreds of others offer indi- vidual components and serious kits for future designers and engineers. Laser milling machines and other CNC machines, robots, quadrocopters, 3D printers and other devices based on microcontrollers flooded the world. The develop- ment of electronic prototypes has been simplified many times at schools and a great amount of startups are being created. The educational effect is possible only with the systematic nature of such decisions and at least a certain uni- formity in requirements. The main problems of implementing free software and hardware solutions (free educational robotics) into educational courses are of- fered.