Teachers from the Electrics – Electronics Faculty of the College of Machinery and Irrigation (VCMI) acquired basic knowledge and hands-on skills after attending a short training workshop on Arduino technology from December 14 – December 15, 2022.
Trained by the GIZ’s Development Advisor Alexander Husenbeth, the training course provided participants with both theory and practice related to programming Arduino technology.
As an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software, Arduino targets anyone who wants to create interactive projects. It senses the environment by receiving inputs from many sensors, and affects its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators.
A total of 10 teachers were introduced about the Arduino ecosystem, including software, hardware and cloud applications. They also learned about programming system, data types, operators, and functions as well as using basic hardware and programming basics.
They also worked in groups to apply basic skills for Arduino, including Blink, Debounce, PWM, InputSerialPrint. Besides, advanced functions of Arduino technology like Array, Interrupts, IoT functions and SD card, and integration of Arduino in classes were also incorporated into the workshop. Participants later started working on Arduino project in the project method of Inform, Plan, Implement, and Test.
Mr Vu Van Tuyen, Vice-dean of the Electrics – Electronics faculty, who was also the co-trainer for this course, shared his thoughts: “Arduino has been widely used in the electronics field, such as robotics, automation, or IoT control technology applicable to monitoring smart building. Prices of its modules are much cheaper than other equipment. Main Arduino-based modules, input and output modules available on the market can easily be connected to each other to create a specific application.”
For participants of the course, he added that they could access a cutting-edge technology based on which to design an Arduino-based application, including programming a robot to navigate streets, clean houses, collect rubbish, or control the traffic lights. The teachers will then transmit this knowledge and skills to their students through relevant practical exercises using Arduino technology.
This activity was held within the component “Supporting High-Quality TVET Institutes”, supported by the Programme “Reform of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Viet Nam”- on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in cooperation with the Vietnamese Directorate of Vocational Education and Training (DVET).
