1. Introduction¶
1.1. About this document¶
The goal of this document is to explain how to use the LabsLand Hive from a user perspective. In this section, we introduce the LabsLand Hive, but you can continue with the User Interface.
1.2. What is the LabsLand Hive?¶
The LabsLand Hive is an advanced remote electronics laboratory created by LabsLand. This online platform allows users to conduct electronics experiments and tests using equipment and devices that are remotely accessible over the internet. This capability facilitates learning and research in the field of electronics without the necessity of physical presence in a traditional laboratory.
You can see below how the real equipment looks like:
Hive features a complex and diverse range of hardware components and devices. This online environment provides a variety of tools needed to conduct electronics experiments and tests, including a multimeter, an oscilloscope, a function generator, and a power supply. The laboratory design offers considerable versatility in creating circuits.
Internally, it has a set of boards that each of them include different types of boards for adding components. If you have your own Hive, you can connect your own components and build your own circuits for your classes.
You can read the paper: LabsLand Electronics Laboratory: Distributed, Scalable and Reliable Remote Laboratory for Teaching Electronics, presented at the REV2023 conference in Greece, obtaining the Best Paper Award.
You can also read the LabsLand Hive Node Reference documentation for further details regarding how the equipment works.
1.3. What is LabsLand?¶
LabsLand is a global network of real laboratories, available online. Hive is one of the LabsLand laboratories (Physics, Electronics, FPGA, Arduino, Chemistry, Biology and others). Universities and schools can access different Hive systems in different locations through LabsLand.
1.4. How to use this laboratory in class?¶
LabsLand provides two kind of services:
Access existing Hive laboratories purchasing licenses for your students. No equipment is needed: you can access real labs from other universities in the LabsLand network.
Purchase your own LabsLand Hive for your institution and connect it to the LabsLand netowkr
In both cases, LabsLand supports the integration of the LabsLand Hive in different Learning Management Systems (such as Canvas, Moodle, Sakai, Google Classroom) and others.
For any of these options contact LabsLand for more details at hive@labsland.com!
1.5. What is next?¶
Continue in User Interface.