Y robot extension module for educational and marketing purposes

Abstract

At the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, of University of Žilina an initiative was created to support the increase of interest in the study of hardware oriented programmees, such as the Computer Engineering programmee which we offer. This paper focuses at further explanation of one of the additional modules of the open-source platform Yrobot. Yrobot is a modular education robotic platform which is dedicated to support the teaching of robotics and other hardware subjects in high schools and universities. The extension module based on Bluetooth technology enables wireless work and control of Yrobot, which can be used and extended at the robotics lessons in teaching.