As part of a Cambridge-Massachusetts Institute funded project a set of teaching resources is being developed around the ARM based Balloon Board microcomputer. The system is being designed to give students and academics a preinstalled system with support material and low cost hardware for control and data acquisition projects. Aspects of the hardware and teaching resource are discussed, together with experiences gained in configuring the system for use with a design and build autonomous robot project for second year undergraduates. Extensions to the current system are also presented including work extending the system using RTAI, additional low cost hardware and inclusion in the MDP Resource CD (Multidisciplinary Design Project) which is also being developed, see here.

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