Virginia Tech DC Metro Area Thinkabit Lab STEM Education and Workforce Development Programs: Day 2 - designing and building IOT circuits with Arduino micro:bit microcontrollers

Virginia Tech's DC Metro Area Thinkabit Lab STEM Education and Workforce Development Programs is the longest-serving collaborator in the Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab network. The mission of our Thinkabit Lab is to serve Washington, D.C. area students, teachers, administrators, parents, and collaborators in technical career exploration and the hands-on electronic and programming foundations of IOT and Smart Cities, AI and robotics automation, sensors, actuators, and data collection and analysis.

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Day 2 - designing and building IOT circuits with Arduino micro:bit microcontrollers

After short status reports from each participant, we had an introduction to remote operation and monitoring simulated with serial print commands.

Experienced participants used the micro:bit's built-in radios and Arduino bluetooth or wifi adaptors. One team connected both types of microcontrollers using a Raspberry Pi microprocessor.

Other teams began exploring agricultural and environmental monitoring adaptations to familiar VEX, Parallax, Kiktronic, and other platforms int he Lab.