An inclined plane remote lab

摘要

This work approaches the development of a remote lab for teaching mechanical principles based on Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment. The lab can be used in order to cover concepts such as second Newton's Law and force decomposition in high school and higher education. The prototype was built making use of open hardware and software solutions to facilitate its replication. It uses Raspberry Pi to retrieve data from sensors and send commands to actuators connected to it, and provide video streaming from a generic webcam.