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 In April 2024 we received a batch of 12 Duckiebots with NVIDIA Jetson Nano 4GB (variant [[https://get.duckietown.com/products/duckiebot-db21?variant=41543707099311|DB21J]]) as part of the [[https://get.duckietown.com/products/classroom-kit-12|Classroom Kit (12)]]. The main motivation behind choosing duckietown as our educational robot was mainly based on two aspects: In April 2024 we received a batch of 12 Duckiebots with NVIDIA Jetson Nano 4GB (variant [[https://get.duckietown.com/products/duckiebot-db21?variant=41543707099311|DB21J]]) as part of the [[https://get.duckietown.com/products/classroom-kit-12|Classroom Kit (12)]]. The main motivation behind choosing duckietown as our educational robot was mainly based on two aspects:
-1. Open Hardware and documentation: The fact that it is Open Hardware gives us the flexibility (in the future) to extend the capabilities of the robot with different sensors or actuators. +  - Affordable hardware (initially we thought it was open hardware): The fact that it is Open Hardware gives us the flexibility (in the future) to extend the capabilities of the robot with different sensors or actuators. 
-2. Educational content: Duckietown offers a [[https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:ETHx+DT-01x+3T2023/home|MOOC on autonomous driving]], plus a series of exercises and notebooks called [[https://github.com/duckietown/duckietown-lx/|duckietown-lx]] as practical implementations of some concepts, this was the selling point to choose duckietown as it offloaded the amount of work required to prepare the material and exercises of a course from scratch, so it left us more freedom to focus on supporting students in their learning process instead of worrying about the material.+  - Educational content: Duckietown offers a [[https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:ETHx+DT-01x+3T2023/home|MOOC on autonomous driving]], plus a series of exercises and notebooks called [[https://github.com/duckietown/duckietown-lx/|duckietown-lx]] as practical implementations of some concepts, this was the selling point to choose duckietown as it offloaded the amount of work required to prepare the material and exercises of a course from scratch, so it left us more freedom to focus on supporting students in their learning process instead of worrying about the material.
  
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