DidacTronic: A low-cost and portable didactic lab for electronics: Kit for digital and analog electronic circuits

This paper presents the DidacTronic, a development and prototyping kit for digital and analog electronic circuits. DitacTronic is a portable and low-cost platform whose goal is to include students from electrical engineering courses and high school students in the innovative world of technology and motivate them to learn by doing design work. A device like this allows them to see concepts presented in theoretical classes, such as physics and electronic, put in action. DitacTronic permits that because it's a portable lab. Oscilloscope, measurement equipment, and basic components are included in this platform. The DitacTronic connects with tablets and smartphones, through Arduino's Bluetooth module, so that the students may use them as a visor to monitor signals, inputs and outputs from DitacTronic or other circuits. Students and professors worked together to overcome one of biggest challenges in the Brazilian Universities: the gap between theory and practice. Therefore, the solution needs to be simple, cheap and replicable. There are many expensive solutions available, but they are not affordable to everyone, everywhere. The research team hopes to disseminate DitacTronic and its principles. The IEEE SIGHT PUC Minas supports this project and is sharing with many engineering students.