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Since COVID-19 pandemic started, higher education was seeking tools and new approaches to fulfil its purposes. Remote Laboratories is such a tool, which helped students to perform the corresponding lab exercises from distance. Remote Labs are not virtual, on the contrary allowing students and teachers to interact with real equipment to complete the exercise in a safe and flexible manner. Additional equipment and software is needed in order for remote access be allowed and become physically feasible. LabVIEW (https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/downloads/software-products/download.labview.html#369643) is a popular software which is utilized by universities’ labs in order teachers and students have the ability to access a physical lab and complete any scenario which is available through distance. Although, lack of access to analogous laboratory deprive a review on a real circumstances, Remote Laboratory composes a great tool for distance learning.

Take-home kits is an alternative to Remote Laboratories. A teaching method, which is suitable either for face-to-face or distance teaching. The idea is that students can give an effort at home to deliver a task using the available material from kit. This technique, especially in distance learning, helps students to meet learning milestones as they work alone to complete the necessary tasks. All students have equal opportunities as long as they have the same kit and the flexibility to work on it anytime and at any place they wish. For programming and microcontrollers topics, easily can be found in the market raspberry pi 4 kits (https://www.raspberrypi.org/) or Arduino (https://www.arduino.cc/) kits that are an ideal way to make students work at home on their own rhythm. Corresponding kit for electronics are available, whereas student can transform its computer to an oscilloscope or any other electronic device by installing the appropriate software. The aforementioned, WaveForms (https://store.digilentinc.com/digilent-waveforms/) is such a case.