Integration of Microcontroller System Design In Mechatronic Education – Low Cost Solutions

With the increasing use of digital control of mechanical systems, it’s necessary for mechanical engineering students to have a basic knowledge of microcontrollers and microprocessors and their associated interfaces with mechanical world. As a consequence, in many universities have been introduced courses in which it is studied microcontrollers and their interface with the real world. The didactical equipments used for this aim can be expensive. On the other hand there are cases in which the existent equipments can be improved by the utilization of the microcontrollers and the PC. Taking into account the above statements, this paper presents some low cost solutions in the field of microcontroller's applications in