Work-in-Progress. SiLaRR: Installing, deploying on Internet, and using a Robotics Laboratory Remote or in classroom with a few clicks.

In a technological society, as the present, teachers and educators should use all the tools at its disposal to extend education beyond the physical classroom to the borders of a laboratory. With that goal three years ago started a research project whose main idea established researching and finding a system that would use easily a robotics laboratory, both remotely and in classroom. Since the philosophy of this project was to have as easiest as possible the installation and start-up of remote robotic laboratories, this work has focused on finding those existing alternatives within the free software and open hardware, and to integrate them into the system whenever has been possible, or, to develop specific tools, always using the philosophy of free software and open hardware. The aforementioned easy installation of robotics laboratories comes from the effort to disseminate knowledge not only from an academic level, but through schools, high schools, and businesses or even from individuals themselves whose have robotics as a hobby. Not everyone involved in education have knowledge of electronics, web development, communications, but several of them have knowledge about robotics and many want to help others to acquire such skills in real time using their robotics equipment through the provision of them as laboratories. But at the same time the robotic equipment must maintain its capacity and functionality for use in a classroom laboratory if necessary. For this, with SiLaRR, the intrusion into systems of the robotic equipment has been reduced to the minimum. With that idea in mind it has been developed this system. As much as possible, the control and interaction with the robotic equipment has been made using low cost hardware or, directly, via software. Efficiency, reuse, flexibility and scalability have been the main features of this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]