Educational Electronics Kit

Company

Freelance

Client

TU Delft

Role

Designer and production coordinator

Year

2013

The Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering needed a custom electronics kit that bachelor students with no prior technical background could use to build functional prototypes. I designed the kit hardware and coding environment with learnability as the primary constraint, then led the production of 100 units and supported the course itself. The kit allowed students to build a working slave photography flash and explore creative lighting techniques without any prior electronics knowledge.

Context

TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering runs hands-on courses in electronics and interactive product prototyping for bachelor students. The available tools and platforms were either too complex or too constraining for genuine learning by students with no prior technical background.

Challenge

The faculty needed a custom kit that novice students could use to build functional prototypes and develop basic coding and electronics skills, without the kit becoming an obstacle. It also needed to be produced in a batch of 100 units within a constrained budget and timeline.

Contribution

I led the design and production project of the kit.

  • Co-developed the hardware design and a coding environment structured so that novice students could activate and experiment with functionality without needing to understand the underlying code.

  • Led the production of 100 kits, managing component procurement, setting up the production workflow, and overseeing quality control with a small student team.

  • Supported the course itself, instructing students and lecturers in how to use the kit and its capabilities.

I led the design and production project of the kit.

  • Co-developed the hardware design and a coding environment structured so that novice students could activate and experiment with functionality without needing to understand the underlying code.

  • Led the production of 100 kits, managing component procurement, setting up the production workflow, and overseeing quality control with a small student team.

  • Supported the course itself, instructing students and lecturers in how to use the kit and its capabilities.

I led the design and production project of the kit.

  • Co-developed the hardware design and a coding environment structured so that novice students could activate and experiment with functionality without needing to understand the underlying code.

  • Led the production of 100 kits, managing component procurement, setting up the production workflow, and overseeing quality control with a small student team.

  • Supported the course itself, instructing students and lecturers in how to use the kit and its capabilities.