It is been a great pleasure organizing a 2 days “Arduino Project Based Learning” training event at Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore. This workshop was organized by the department of Medical Electronics in association with Tenet Technetronics Bangalore. The event was held on 29th and 30th of October, 2016, the participants were 5th and 7th semester Medical Electronics students. There were around 50 participants present in this event.
Tenet Technetronics is glad and hearty thanks to the Medical Electronics department Faculties and Management for providing us an opportunity to host this training in their college and make it go success.
The main objective of this workshop was Project based learning with Arduino Micro-controller Platform and interfacing different kinds of medical related sensors with Arduino.
On the first day, the very first session was presented by our technical expert Mr. Umashankar Shetty with an introduction to Arduino. Then the session followed up with the Arduino micro-controller platform. It was a brief introduction about the micro-controller, Arduino platform, its features and hardware & software description.
The second session was followed up with hands-on Arduino interfaces with Universal GPIO board. The participants were keen in understanding interfaces with Arduino micro-controllers and they were assigned with tasks, as the session carried on with basic input/output interfaces like making LED glow, blinking an LED, making all 8 LED’s to blink at a time, reading a digital value from a push-button switch, based on the button pressed the LEDs should turn ON, buzzer to beep, and a counter program to count the no of times the button is being pressed and so on . . .
On the day two, the session continued with hands-on interface with the micro-controller and Analog sensors like Potentiometer (reading analog value and printing on serial monitor), interfacing Light sensor, where analog values were read and based on the intensity of light a series of LED’s were made to glow which is similar to a smart street light, interfacing temperature sensor to measure the room temperature in degree Celsius, DC motor to run in forward and backward direction and another project based on the temperature value the DC motor has to be turned ON. IR sensors to count the number of people entering the room. Accelerometer to read all 3 axes that is x, y and z-axis. The participants were very good in interfacing and rigging the circuits, as well as writing the code. Different tasks were assigned to students while interfacing various sensor.
Finally a demo on interfacing ECG and EMG with Arduino was presented to students by our Technical expert Mr. Salai Deva Thirumani. This demo included plotting the ECG and EMG values over the Internet cloud so that the doctor can monitor the patient’s health from a remote place.
At the end of the day the participants were provided with the certificates. The students were interested to attend many such events in future and we had a pretty good feedback from them.
