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vrLab: A Virtual and Remote Low Cost Electronics Lab Platform

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Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society (ApplePies 2020)

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SARS-CoV2 pandemic stressed the need to increase adoption of remote teaching. Technical courses, specifically electronic engineering ones, suffered the miss of real lab experiments directly carried out by students. In this paper a new approach is presented, based on the usage of very low cost experimental boards, which act both as a measurement instrument and a programmable prototype circuit. A first board, targeted to analog and digital electronics courses experiments, has been designed, and is described in this paper.

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Ruo Roch, M., Martina, M. (2021). vrLab: A Virtual and Remote Low Cost Electronics Lab Platform. In: Saponara, S., De Gloria, A. (eds) Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 738. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66729-0_24

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