EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT CONSTRUCTION INVOLVING SOLDERING ON A CIRCUIT BOARD

This paper proposes a novel education system for learning electronic circuit construction involving soldering on a universal circuit-board. This system enables a student to efficiently design the layout of circuit components on a circuit board and helps the student securely construct the circuit by soldering the circuit components in accordance with the designed layout. Web-based instructions are utilized for wiring and soldering the circuit components on the lower surface of the circuit-board based on automated recognition of circuit images during the circuit construction. The effectiveness of the proposed system was verified by 40 undergraduate students at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. The comparison tests between two groups that comprised students that used or did not use the proposed system demonstrated the effectiveness of the system.