Currently, there is a strong movement in comprehensive schools towards teaching natural science in a more integrated way. For example, the areas mechanics, electronics and software can be studied individually, but they can also be combined and a mechatronical system can be investigated or even be built. For such classes, we developed a robust, modular, reusable and cost-effective kit for building autonomous mobile robots. These kits consist of aluminium elements, modular controller boards, different sensors and actuators, as well as the free GNU C++ environment and a graphical programming environment.
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