Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced a low-cost robotics kit designed to teach university students how to build, code and test systems.
The solderless assembly of the Robotics System Learning Kit (RSLK) Max allows students to have a fully functioning embedded system that can be built in about 15 minutes. The goal is to provide classrooms that don’t have access to soldering equipment with a hands-on kit that anyone can use and that can also be re-used.
TI launched the RSLK series in 2018 with the goal of helping university students learn robotics by building various sub-systems and testing robotics in the classroom in order to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.
The RSLK Max kit includes the SimpleLink MSP432P301R microcontroller LaunchPad development kit, sensors and a chassis board for a mobile learning platform. The platform allows students to learn integrated hardware and software and advanced learning for wireless communication and internet of things (IoT) capabilities can be added to remotely control the robot or establish robot-to-robot communication, TI said.
TI said the kit will help future engineers get a hands-on understanding of real-world embedded system designs.
