Troubleshooting-Based Learning with Interactive Approach for Polytechnics Students
NURUL SYAFIQAH YAP ABDULLAH, FARIDAH IBRAHIM, MOHD IKHWAN HADI YAACOB

Abstract
Basic electronics experiments are essential in providing fundamental foundation in electronics. Hence, this work proposes an interactive data logger specifically for basic electronics experiments in polytechnics. Development process including hardware and software will be discussed in details. Developed gadget utilizes the microcontroller for voltage measurement and serial communication with computer, Computer software has been designed to represent the data interactively on the computer screen. Furthermore, voltage and current measurement were successfully merged with on-board electronics components for simplified experimental setup. This gadget was designed to be compatible with two types of sensors. It provides two input channel and also can be utilized as an oscilloscope on the computer screen. At low development cost, this sleek and compact gadget is expected to enhance student’s performances and attitudes towards the laboratory work in basic electronics. This claim will be validated later and it will be included as a future work.

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