Teach Digital Design with FPGAs using a remote Terasic DE1-SoC!

In this laboratory, students can learn how to work with Hardware Design Languages: VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog. Then they can test their code in a real Terasic DE1-SoC FPGA. The FPGA has a set of components and peripherals already in place, such as 10 red LEDs, 6 7-segment displays and multiple clocks. In addition, you will have access to 10 virtual switches and 4 virtual buttons that you can use in your design and that you will be able to interact with when controlling the real hardware. This way, you will be able to turn on and off the switches or press the buttons and see how your design behaves. The boards are located in different universities and institutions around the world, as you will see when using each board.

This laboratory will let you learn basic Digital Electronics.

You will be able to design Combinational Systems, use Boole Algebra, create VK diagrams, and try the systems that you create in real remote hardware (Intel FPGAs).

With this laboratory, you can program a real Arduino UNO board. It also includes input and output peripherals, similar to those that are often included in Arduino starter kits. 

Those peripherals include LEDs, switches, buttons, an OLED display, a servo motor, etc.

There are two ways to use this laboratory:

• Code editor: write C code, compile it online and send it to the Arduino board.

• Blockly editor: write a code in a visual programming language, compile it online and send it to the Arduino board.

The LabsLand Arduino Robot laboratory lets you carry out experiments with a real robot. Define the robot's logic, and then upload your program into the robot to see its behavior through a web camera. You can make your robot avoid walls, compete in line-following races, or do any other type of exercise.

There are two ways to use this laboratory:

• Code editor: write C code, compile it online and send it to the Arduino robot.

• Blockly editor: write a code in a visual programming language, compile it online and send it to the Arduino robot.

With this laboratory you can program and control a ST WB55RG Nucleo board. It also includes various input and output peripherals, similar to those that are often used in introductory IoT and microcontroller programming courses.

The technical specification for the laboratory is the following:

• Features the STMicroelectronics' Nucleo WB55RG board.

• Supports various programming environments:

  • Fully web-based LabsLand online IDE.

  • Online "mbed" Compiler by ARM.

  • Keil Studio Cloud

  • Standard offline toolchains such as STM32CubeProgrammerIDE, Keil Studio or GCC-ARM based toolchains

• Supports programming different modes for low-energy consumption, perfect for low-energy computing courses.

• Supports current monitoring capabilities, so that users can compare consumption for different algorithms, peripheral usage, and energy consumption modes.

• Emulated input peripherals:

  • Switches

  • Buttons

  • Potentiometers

  • Advanced devices (e.g. N8 controller)

• Output peripherals:

  • 3x LEDs

  • RGB LED

  • Servo Motor

  • LCD Screen

• Support for Virtual Environments (controlled with the real hardware for advanced scenarios, learning activities and simulations)

  • Parking Lot automation

In the Microscope Laboratory, you can explore a variety of samples using basic microscopy techniques. Learn how to operate the microscope, including adjusting focus, managing lighting, and changing lenses to control zoom levels. Observe different plant and animal tissue samples, gain hands-on experience with essential microscopy features, and deepen your understanding of how microscopes work. This version of the lab includes a preparation phase but it is optional and can be skipped.

The setup, useful for schools and universities, includes a Geiger counter that can measure the number of detected particle collisions. The user can choose among different radioactive sources, as well as an absorber to put between the radioactive source and the probe. Additionally, other parameters that users can vary are the distance and number of tests. This allows for a wide range of experiments and learning opportunities.

Through this remote laboratory you can experiment with Newton's second law in a system that allows you to observe and analyze the behavior of a ball moving along an inclined plane or in a free fall. The parameters to be analyzed are: time, velocity and acceleration of the ball during the fall. The angle of inclination is configurable by the user, reaching 90º and allowing to experience a scenario of free fall. Check whether the ball rolls while travelling on the inclined plane or it only moves down the plane. Will it depend on the defined inclination? Test it!

Planarians are flatworms that can be used to study the effect of different substances on the nervous system. In this remote laboratory, you can choose the solution into which to place the planarian worms. The solutions are aqueous and have different exitatory or inhibitory substances, with different concentrations, dissolved into them.

In this version of the planarians laboratory there is a manual tally counter that students can use to count the number of times the planarians cross a line (to estimate their activity level).

In this version of the laboratory (Acid-Base Titration II) you can perform the acid-base titration for an unknown hydrochloric acid solution. In other versions of the laboratory you can perform the acid-base titration for a citric acid solution instead (Acid-Base Titration I), and acetic acid (Acid-Base Titration II).

Both this version of the laboratory (Acid-Base Titration III) and Acid-Base Titration II emphasize visual burette measurements, including properly reading the meniscus in the burette. The other version of the laboratory (see Acid-Base Titration I) does not emphasize this, and focuses on the calculations instead.

Also, in these versions you can choose between two different configurations: one for the potentiometric approach and one for the colorimetric approach. The configuration for the colorimetric approach does not show the pH sensor. In other version of the laboratory (see Acid-Base Titration I) there is a single configuration and the sensor is always shown.