Overview and Background

This project can be adapted to many teaching goals.

It was used by me and my colleagues in the "industrial ICT" classes for students aged 17-18 years.

This project can be used as it is but offers plenty of room for expansion.
One can add more lasers, design a longer belt, add a servo to manipulate objects (the electronics interface hardware is already provide on the interface PCB).

Lesson Plan and Activity

This project covers many aspects of engineering:

mechanical engineering
3d design
3d CAD software
3d printing

Industrial ICT engineering
MCU applications (Arduino,raspbery pi PIC/AVR CPU)
Software programming (Arduino C / Web API design C# and others)
Raspberry Pi SPI, I2C, WIFI, GPIO
Electronics design (basic interface design)
LASER application (the do and don'ts with lasers)
digital module interface application
PWM signal generation for servo.
Junction transistor and MOSFET interface
OPAMP (comparator design)
Stepper motor technology

Materials Needed

Depending the teaching goals.

3D printer (required)
electronics lab (required)
Software development tools (required)
3D CAD software (recommended/not required)
PCB production capabilities (recommended/not required)
WIFI and/or wired network access (recommended/not required)

Skills Learned

Rasberry pi
Arduino
Micro controllers
interface design
Engineering
2D print technology
Software design
IOT applications

Beltdrive educational system