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Best Robotics Courses 2021

 

Best Robotics Tutorials 2021

Electricity & electronics – Robotics, learn by building

You can open all kinds of doors for advancement in so many careers with a basic understanding of electronics. Think about all the fields and hobbies that involve electronics to some extent! This “Robotics: Learn by Building” course series focuses on robotics – which in itself is a very diverse field that applies to everything from industry, manufacturing, laboratory work, or construction. army, even in home automation. With over 17,000 students enrolled and over 1,300 five-star ratings, students ages 8 to 60 and over enjoyed the course and the projects.

In this Module 1 course, you will build electronic circuits, fabricate electronic components from scratch and use them in your circuits, learning about electricity, soldering techniques and basic analog electronics. You will need some basic math skills and that’s it! No prior knowledge of electronics electricity is required, and yet by the end of this course, you will have built working electronic circuits such as flashing lights, sound effects, and the world’s best friend control. robotics engineer, the servo motor which is a motor that rotates in a specific direction at your command. You will even have connected this servo motor to read the electrical impulses of your arm muscles to control the motor in a bionic way. All courses have captions for the hearing impaired. Start with the lessons today to begin your personal educational journey towards your goals – a horizon now filled with so many other opportunities thanks to your newfound knowledge.

Course material:

You will need electronic parts and a mockup, which you can purchase as a companion kit (the analog electronic kit) or supply your own.

The first section of the course (available for a free preview) explains what tools and parts are and what you will need if you are supplying your own electronic parts.

Tools needed: multimeter, soldering iron and solder, wire,

This course is the prerequisite for Module II which is digital electronics where you will work with a computer on a chip and connect that computer to the real world. In Module III, you will learn robotic drive systems and physics, and gain a wide variety of prototyping skills so that you can actually build your own robots and fabricate your own parts. In Module IV you will complete everything you have learned by building a 3D printer from scratch, connecting it to a desktop computer, and making your own plastic parts. The 3D printer is, in fact, a robot that you can then use to make parts for your other robot designs. In module V, you can take your robot design and construction skills to the next level with a hands-on approach to autonomous robotic systems: getting to know various sensors to know where you are and what your robot is doing, GPS navigation, basic artificial intelligence, powerful chips known as FPGAs where you literally design a custom circuit on the chip, vision systems and more.

Hands-On Robotics with Arduino, Build 13 robot projects

Curious about controlling a robot with a smartphone, you’ve come to the right place. Learn the basic concept and programming needed to design a fully functional Arduino robot. For this course, you will need the simplest but most powerful and advanced microcontroller board called Arduino UNO and a Bluetooth with a basic electronic component.

Fundamentals of robotics

Robotics is basically a branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation and application of robots. It is a powerful tool for understanding the basic concepts of computer science, mechanical engineering and electronic engineering. In this Arduino Robot Course, you will use a simplified version of the C ++ language to program our robot using the Arduino IDE.

Course content and overview

This course is designed for students interested in controlling an Arduino robot with an Android smartphone. No coding experience is required; all you need is an Arduino, Bluetooth, a low cost hardware and electronics component to build the robot. We’ll start with the basics of Arduino programming and then move on to higher topics.

Arduino Basics

In this course, you will first understand the basics of Arduino, then we will look at installing and configuring Arduino with your computer or laptop.

Robot construction

After understanding the basics of Arduino, let’s build our Arduino robot. All the components needed to build this robot are mentioned in section 2

Time control robot

In the Time Control Robot section, you will first understand how motor driver works and how to control 2 motors using just one motor driver.

We will then write the Arduino program to make the robot move in the following direction for a specific period of time

Forward

Backward

Axial left

Axial right

Right radial

Left radial

Stop

Serial communication

Serial communication is essential for sending and receiving data between electronic devices. We will use the serial communication to control the LEDs, the potentiometer sensor and the Arduino robot.

In this section, you will learn how to read analog values ​​from sensors and display them on the serial monitor. You will also write (send data) values ​​from the PC to Arduino.

Android programming

Android OS has taken the world by storm after its inception almost 10 years ago. One of the main advantages of owning an Android smartphone is the ability to use it as a remote control to control robots and other electronic devices.

In this course, we will design 5 Android apps using a tool called AppInventor2. AppInventor2 is graphical programming software using which even a non-programmer can design amazing Android apps within minutes.

Controlling the Arduino robot using an Android smartphone

We are going to create 3 Android apps to control the Arduino and each app works in a different way

SmartBot

In the Android Smartbot app, we will create 5 buttons (Forward, Backward, Left, Right and Stop). When the user clicks on one of the buttons, the robot will move in that particular direction.

AcceleroControl robot

In the Android AcceleroControl Robot app, we will use the accelerometer sensor of the Android smartphone to control the robot. Thus, when the user tilts the robot forward, it moves forward, when the smartphone is kept flat, the robot stops. Likewise, by pointing the smartphone in the direction, you can control the direction of the Arduino robot.

VoiceControl robot

In the voice control robot, we will move our robot in a different direction by giving voice inputs

Black line follower

In the black line follower robot, we will first understand the working principle of infrared sensor, and then attach it to our robot. After that, we will understand the programming logic and then program the arduino robot to follow a black line.

White line follower

In white line follower, we will understand the working principle of white line follower robot first, then reverse the black line follower program so that arduino robot follows white line

Object tracking robot

In the Object Follower robot, we will first understand how this robot works. After that, we will write the Object Follower robot program so that the arduino robot can track an object.

Object repelling robot

In the Object Repeller robot, we will first understand the principle of operation of this robot. After that, we will write the program so that the arduino robot will keep pushing back or moving away from the object.

Robot avoiding objects

The object avoidance robot is similar to the object repellent robot, but under certain conditions, it will simply avoid the object instead of moving away from it.

Light follower robot

In the Light Follower robot, we will first understand the working principle of this robot. After that, we will write the Light Follower robot program and use the smartphone flashlight for the arduino robot to follow it.

Light repellent Robot

In the Light Repeller robot, we will first understand the working principle of this robot. After that we will write the program so that the arduino robot will keep pushing or moving away from a light source.

Robot avoiding the light

The anti-light robot is similar to the light repellent robot, but under certain conditions, it will simply avoid the object instead of moving away from it.

Digital Electronics: Robotics, learn by building module II

By building on the knowledge gained in the Analog Electronics module, you open even more doors to various careers and hobbies. Think about the number of industries / businesses / hobbies that involve computers or computer control. Even automobiles are crammed with digital electronics now. All of this involves digital electronics, and you want to take advantage of it today. In this Module 2 course, you will build digital electronic circuits, use and program microcontrollers like the PIC and Arduino, and connect to the real world with them.

No prior knowledge of digital electronics or programming is required, yet by the end of this course you will have built functional digital electronic circuits like digital memory and programmed microcontrollers which are essentially a computer on a microchip. . You will connect them to the real world for home automation and of course, to control your robots. All courses have captions for the hearing impaired

This series of modules “Robotics: learning by building” has an end goal focused on the diverse field of robotics. In Module I we learned the basics of electricity and electronics. In this module II, you further develop your knowledge and skills to include digital electronics and practice your skills on real digital components.

This course is the prerequisite during Module III where you will learn robotic drive systems and physics, and gain a wide variety of prototyping skills so that you can actually build your own robots and fabricate your own parts. In Module IV you will complete everything you have learned by building a 3D printer from scratch, connecting it to a desktop computer, and making your own plastic parts. The 3D printer is, in fact, a robot that you can then use to make parts for your other robot designs. In module V, you can take your robot design and construction skills to the next level with a hands-on approach to autonomous robotic systems: getting to know various sensors to know where you are and what your robot is doing, GPS navigation, basic artificial intelligence, powerful chips known as FPGAs where you literally design a custom circuit on the chip, vision systems and more.

Lesson overview:

In this course we will cover:

What is digital?

Binary and hexadecimal system and ASCII
Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion
Logic gates and you will create your own RAM
Digital addressing / demultiplexing

Microprocessors and microcontrollers – what are they?

Programming and use of PIC microcontrollers for:

– display information on an LCD screen

-Read digital and analog inputs

-PWM controls a DC motor and a servo motor

-Read keyboard matrices

-LED display control

-write to on-board flash memory for remote systems

What is Arduino?
– use of Arduino for all of the above PIC projects, as well as the use of color TFT touch screens

Build our mobile robot

Give our mobile robot a “brain”
Ultrasound and ultrasonic radar / external detection
Programmable IR remote control

Best Robotics Books 2021

Robotics: Everything You Need to Know About Robotics from Beginner to Expert

Robotics: Everything You Need to Know About Robotics from Beginner to Expert by Peter Mckinnon. Explore the fascinating world of robotics! Do you like robots? Are you fascinated by modern technological advances? Do you want to know how robots work? If so, you will be delighted with robotics – everything you need to know about robotics, from beginners to experts. You will learn the history of robotics, you will learn the 3 rules and you will meet the first robots. This book also describes the many essential hardware components of today’s robots: – Analog and digital brains – DC, servo motors and stepper motors – Shock sensors and light sensors – and even robotic bodywork Want to build and program your own robot ? You can use robotics: everything you need to know about robotics, from beginners to experts, to learn the basics of RoboCORE software and how to create “brains” for creations like a robot to avoid obstacles. You will also learn the materials you need to use to build your robot body and the sensors you need to help your new friend perceive the world around him. This book even explains how to build an autonomous wall climbing robot! Don’t delay – start reading robotics – everything you need to know about robotics from beginners to experts right now! You will be so happy to have acquired this exciting and powerful knowledge!

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