Designing Embedded Systems with Arduino: A Fundamental Technology for Makers [1 ed]

Tianhong Pan obtained his Ph.D. degree in April 2007 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow for 1.5 years at National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, China, since 2009, and 3.5 years at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, since 2011, where he gained valuable industrial experience in semiconductor manufacturing processes and the petrochemical industry. He is now a professor at Jiangsu University's School of Electrical and Information Engineering in Zhenjiang, China. As the core member of the innovative research & education organization of Asia, he organized all summer programs of innovative engineering design since 2013 and got a good experience in “Embedded System Design using Arduino.” In addition to teaching Arduino, he enjoys automating everyday tasks, blinking LEDs, designing and etching PCBs, and lots of random things in between. Much of his time has been spent researching, building, and testing various controllers to make his device work automatically. Additionally, he published several articles in refereed journals and international conferences.Yi Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in communication and information systems from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor of the School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. Since 2010, he has begun to have an interest in innovative engineering education and maker training. As the core member of the innovative research & education organization of Asia, he has attended all summer programs of innovative engineering design and creative engineering design competitions since 2013. In 2014 & 2015, he visited Yamaguchi University of Japan as a visiting lecturer to teach “Embedded System.” These abroad education activities provided great valuable experiences for forming his education idea of maker training. Through teaching practice, he proposed an effective maker training mode based on “Arduino/Raspberry Pi/Android/Robot” at the end of 2015. For his contribution to maker education, he received the first prize of the Teaching Achievement Award by Jiangsu University and the first prize of National Engineering Training by the Ministry of Education institution of the Engineering Training Guidance Committee, respectively, in 2016.