Discovering the world of IoT with the Connected MCU Lab

By Robert Owen, Aug. 09, 2016 – 

The most important new release from the Imagination University Program (IUP) this year is the Connected Microcontroller (MCU) Lab. It's a semester-long course that provides educators with everything they need to teach the basics of MCUs and IoT to an undergraduate class.

The Connected MCU Lab takes students through the basic microcontroller and I/O features, through real-time operating system concepts and advanced processor architecture, and finally into the principles of cloud connectivity. Using the open-source Creator IoT Framework, students can then look at data in the cloud and remotely access the MCU node.

Two companies are partnering with us to spread this innately practical course to universities worldwide. Microchip created the PIC32 MCU at the heart of the system, and provides the PICkit™ 3 Debugger/Programmer, along with their well proven software tools, MPLAB X IDE and the MPLAB Harmony library. Digilent created the high-performance chipKIT™ Wi-FIRE board which provides a robust and stable hardware platform for the student labs, and a powerful base upon which to construct future projects.

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