Considerations are made for mechanical material testing, but can be useful for other laboratory works.
Usual solutions are:
- standard equipment,
- equipment special designed for students made by companies,
- virtual experiments ,
- equipment “low cost” made by staff and students .
The last,- equipment “low cost” made by staff and students, is best suited for an affordable solution .The mechanical hardware is based on components used for DIY devices, for example aluminum profiles for 3D printers, shaft supports etc.; some components are from junk (old printers). For integration of sensors, a solution with Arduino (or similar microcontroller) will be used. For data visualization and calculus we consider an application for mobile phones (MIT App Inventor).
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