Recently, the Airborne Innovation hosted its first Introduction to Microcontrollers Course.
Students were taught the basic background of electronics principles and operations, circuit diagrams, line-by-line code review, circuitry analysis.
This course focused on specifically on the low-cost Arduino microcontroller.
Lessons occurred through lessons and hands-on practical applications, through various challenge projects, culminating in a capstone build.
Other courses include Basic and Advanced Additive Manufacturing.
www.army.mil/82ndAirborne#org-airborne-innovation-lab
Arduino, and Pi’s are super useful. Can replicate tons of specialized circuits and are /were cheap enough to keep a lot around. Availability has been a reHopefully they add an advanced class and maybe a program to really push experimentation and improvisation( things like ” what would it take to replace a engine control module? ” HVAC control board?” “Water plant?”). You’re really getting into PLC’s with a Pi.