IEEE SB Universiti Putra Malaysia, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, UPM was successfully conducted an Arduino Hands on Workshop 3.0 for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The workshop was participated by 2 instructors and 30 students from Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia. The workshop was divided into two sessions which were about the Introduction to Arduino and Labview-Microcontroller Data Acquisition. Introduction to Arduino session was conducted by Ashen Gomes while the Labview-Microcontroller Data Acquisition session was conducted by Lau Karn Jye.
The main objective of this workshop is to get a deepe understanding about Arduino board and Labview-Microcontroller Data Acquisition software to all students. At the beginning of the Introduction to Arduino session, the students were introduced to basic electronic components such as breadboard, jump wire, resistors, light emitting diode (LED), light dependent resistor (LDR), switch, potentiometer and Arduino board. There are three different projects in this session conducted by Ashen Gomes by using Arduino board which are byte LED on, string LED on, and analogue to digital conversion (ADC). Lastly students were assigned to complete the mini project about comparator that was given by the instructor.
After that, the Labview-Microcontroller Data Acquisition session was started after lunch break. This session’s contents includes the introduction of Labview programming, Labview data type conversion, Arduino Serial data in one dimensional array presentation, Labview Serial communication setup, and Labview data for external application. The instructor explained details about the step to create and simulate the Labview program.
The workshop has successfully provided a platform for the students to learn and experience the benefit of using Arduino board and also Labview software for future purposes. Other than that, this workshop is also an opportunity for final year students of UPM to learn the process of programming by using Arduino and Labview for their final year projects.
EEE SB UPM would like to thank Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, committees of IEEE SB UPM and all participants from Universiti Putra Malaysia for supporting this event.
