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Wire Your Way: Hardware-Contextualized Guidance and In-situ Tests for Personalized Circuit Prototyping

Authors

Punn Lertjaturaphat, Jungwoo Rhee, Jaewon You, Andrea Bianchi

Abstract

The increasing popularity of microcontroller platforms like Arduino enables diverse end-user developers to participate in circuit prototyping. Traditionally, follow-along tutorials serve as an essential learning method for makers, and in fact, several prior toolkits leveraged this format as a way to engage new makers. However, literature and our formative study (N=12) show that makers have unique preferences regarding the construction of their circuits and idiosyncratic ways to assess and debug problems, which contrasts with the step-by-step instructional nature of tutorials and those systems leveraging this method. To address this mismatch, we present a prototyping platform that supports personalized circuit construction and debugging. Our system utilizes an augmented breadboard, which is circuit-aware and supports on-the-fly hardware reconfiguration via contextualized guidance and in-situ circuit validation through interactive tests. Through a usability study (N=12), we demonstrate how makers leverage circuit-aware guidance and debugging to support individual building patterns.

Metadata

arXiv ID: 2603.05085
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: cs.HC
Published: 2026-03-05
Fetched: 2026-03-06 14:20

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