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This project’s goal is to design a computer networks laboratory. The challenges are the lack of dedicated space and resources, mobility, computers with administrative right, and usability. We have designed a lab consisting on four nodes, or small racks, containing a set of networking devices that can be reconfigured by the students to work individually, in small groups, or as whole class. The nodes are mobile, students can move them from the storage place to a conventional classroom. We will use Raspberry Pi computers, instead of the Windows computers in the classrooms; thus, the students will have complete administrative control to configure addresses, ports, and software. We have developed some laboratory experiments and tutorials, some activities that target different aspects of the fundamentals of the computer networks curriculum. Students would be able to complete these experiments/tutorials in 1 or 2 hours, depending on the class. On Spring 2015 students on CET4773 and EMT2455 will be using this equipment and instructional material.