A portable solution for microcontroller laboratories

This paper describes the development of two portable low-cost active learning platforms for a course on microcontrollers. These platforms are designed and developed at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India. The motivation behind the development of these platforms was to help engineering colleges across the country to upgrade their laboratories with modern microcontroller platforms along with comprehensive learning resources, free of cost, as part of Virtual Labs, a national level project. Both platforms were deployed at IIT Bombay and some other engineering colleges on pilot basis to investigate their effectiveness.