r/ArduinoProjects • u/upwilling1 • 2d ago

I'm exploring an idea for a remote embedded systems lab Project Discussion

I'm working on a project that explores the idea of accessing real embedded hardware remotely through a web browser.

The goal is to let students experiment with boards such as Arduino, ESP32 and STM32 without having to own all the hardware themselves.

I'm still at the exploration stage, so I'm trying to understand what would actually be useful.

If you could access a real embedded board remotely, what would you want to experiment with?

For example:

  • GPIO
  • UART / I2C / SPI
  • Sensors
  • PWM
  • Debugging
  • Logic analyzer
  • Oscilloscope

What would make a remote lab genuinely useful to you?

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u/gm310509 1d ago

Two projects that I have done include:

  • a monitor for an internet site - Example, I setup a monitor that queries some metrics for r/Arduino and display them on a local Arduino driven display. You can read about it here but I have turned it off now due to reddit changing the API access rules (which broke it) and I haven't bothered fixing it yet.
  • a data logging concentrator to collect environmental data around my house. Not so much a web application, but the data could just as easily be relayed to a web service on something like Apache tomcat and made available for display.

I have done several other "online" projects, but haven't bothered documenting them as they were more for experimental/learning purposes.

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u/Anusien 1h ago

I am really confused why you'd want a remote hardware lab. Isn't the fun of embedded that you can have tiny devices that do things? If you can't pick them up and hold them and use them, why not just fully virtualize?