First-year electrical engineering students learned the fundamentals of electronic design by fabricating their own circuit boards at the inaugural “Build-a-Board” workshop.

The event was hosted by the Engineering Innovation Hub (EIH), an experiential learning space with resources for fabrication, automation, robotics and modeling on Notre Dame’s campus.

When students powered their finished boards, their microcontrollers connected to the internet via WiFi to retrieve the time, date and weather. They also used their boards to change the brightness of three LEDs.