Low-cost Carry-home Mobile Platforms for Project-based Evaluation of Control Theory * *This work benefits from KU Leuven-BOF PFV/10/002 Centre of Excellence: Optimization in Engineering (OPTEC); the Belgian Programme on Interuniversity Attraction Poles, initiated by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (DYSCO); Flanders Make projects ROCSIS: Robust and Optimal Control of Systems of Interacting Subsystems and RoFaLC: Robust and Fast Learning Control; and projects G0C4515N and G091514N of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO-Flanders). Niels van Duijkeren is a fellow of the TEMPO Initial Training Network (FP7-ITN-TEMPO (607 957)). Ruben Van Parys is a PhD fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders. The MECO Research Group is an associated research lab of Flanders Make.