This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel circuitry that extends the
popular Arduino UNO microcontroller board to facilitate multiple educational activities in engineering
courses. In particular, the aim of this board, the UMA-AEB, is to minimize the overhead that is usually
imposed on the students before they can conduct the actual exercises, yet retain the valuable
experiences that could otherwise not be acquired with simulated experiments or inflexible electronic
training-benches.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
This work has been supported by the University of Málaga (Spain) through the educational innovation
project PIE-15-093 “Innovación en el trabajo en laboratorio de una diversidad de asignaturas de
ingeniería mediante el diseño y aplicación de una extensión de la plataforma de hardware abierto
Arduino”