The article presents a project of the small articulated, educational robot with five degrees of freedom. There were described elements of the mechanical part of the structure and the control system based on LabVIEW and the Arduino platform. Apart of steerage and simple programming of manipulators movements, a measuring system was created using the created graphical interface. It allows you to register and visualize the basic parameters of the robot servo drives. The system consists of two basic components: the subsystem of current acquisition and servo voltages, the data processing subsystem. The developed system allows for an easy presentation of the construction and operation of the manipulator in the course of teaching in the field of automation and robotics.