Electricity & electronics – Robotics, learn by building
Original price was: $99.99.$19.99Current price is: $19.99.
What you’ll learn
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develop and build analog electronics circuits
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you will build multiple circuits from sound buzzers to bionics where we actually control a servo motor by reading signals from your muscles
You can open all kinds of doors for advancement in so many careers with a basic understanding of electronics. Think of all of the fields and hobbies that involve electronics to some degree! This “Robotics: Learn by building” series of courses focuses on robotics – which itself is a very diverse field that has application in everything from industry, manufacturing, laboratory work, or military, even in home automation.
Updated November 15, 2021
With over 26,000 students enrolled and more than 2,100 five star ratings, students aged 8 to 60+ have enjoyed the course and projects.
In this module 1 course, you will build electronic circuits, actually make some electronic components from scratch and use them in your circuits, learn about electricity, soldering skills, and basic analog electronics. You’ll need some basic math skills and that’s it! No prior knowledge of electricity of electronics is required, and yet by the end of this course you’ll have built functioning electronic circuits like light flashers, sound effects, and controlling the robotics engineer’s best friend, the servo motor which is a motor that turns to a specific direction at your command. You will have even connected that servo motor up to read electrical impulses from the muscles in your arm to control the motor bionically. All courses have captions for the hearing impaired.
Start through the lessons today to begin your personal education journey towards your goals – a horizon now filled with so many more opportunities because of your new-found knowledge.
Course materials:
You will need electronic parts and a breadboard, which you can purchase as an accompanying kit (the Analog Electronics Kit) or provide your own.
The first section of the course (available for free preview) explains what the tools and parts are and what you will need if you are supplying your own electronic parts.
Tools needed: a multimeter, soldering iron and solder, wire,
This course is the prerequisite for the module II course which is digital electronics where you will work with a computer-on-a-chip and hook that computer up to the real world. In module III you’ll learn robotic drive systems and physics, and gain a wide variety of skills in prototyping so you can actually build your own robots and manufacture your own parts. In module IV, you’ll culminate all you’ve learned so far as you build a 3D printer from scratch, hook it up to a desktop computer and make your own plastic parts. The 3D printer is, in effect, a robot which 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: learning about various sensors to know where you are and what your robot is doing, GPS navigation, basic artificial intelligence, powerful microchips known as FPGA’s where you literally design a custom circuit on the chip, vision systems and more.
Who this course is for:
- Intended for beginners and those with some experience in electronics and hobby robotics
12 reviews for Electricity & electronics – Robotics, learn by building
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Carlos Almendros Cuquerella –
This course is amazing! Concepts are well explained and the best of all is that it includes a lot of circuits to mount and improve your understanding. Moving right now for the second part!
Victor Boit –
Very detailed explanation for any level. Great teacher, he makes electronics fun. Highly recommend.
Barrie Ditson –
Love the hands-on ! Wish I had transcripts of when the workings of a circuit are explained to help me get it into memory. Also I find it confusing when current flow is shown backward from what I am used too.
Well done though!
Koketso Langanani –
Ian makes the course much more exciting by his exuberant character and explains concepts in a manner easier to grasp. Unlike the traditional teaching method, he gets to tackle a single situation through several different parts; if we do this, what happens, but what if we did that, type of style leaves a learner curious and introspective.
Douglas Hathcock –
One of the most rewarding classes I’ve purchased.
Nicky Speight –
This is one of the first courses I’ve had where I feel the tutor loves what he does and it engages me better. This is a great course with lots of information things I’ve only heard of here like the power pyramid i’ve got books that don’t teach that.
Its a great course presented with humour and in depth knowledge. I know it sounds like the course has been here a while but would recommend purchasing.
Arend Westdorp –
Very well presented in a understandable manner.
The bonus lessons are also a great source of information especially the one about which resistor to use for a diode.
Drew Winkles –
I like using this type of instruction to get some of the concepts explained to me and I can watch what one is doing. I am a big visual and audible learner and this course ticks both of those boxes big time!
Marcin Rakowski –
I’m very grateful to Ian for having made this course. I’ve been dabbling in electronics and trying to gather my knowledge from reading and YouTube tutorials, but I always felt I was missing some fundamentals. Ian has just provided all fundamentals I felt I needed in a precise and scientific way. Taking time to explain each concept in detail and doing so with a sense of humour I got to love. Highly recommended and will definitely get all the other courses in the series.
Darrell –
Enjoying these lessons and the instructor!
Michael Meyer –
Prakmatisch, praktisch und Theorie einfach erklärt. Gute Beispiele zum Nachbauen
David Pulcifer –
There is definitely some good content here, but for a course that claims to be accessible to children I don’t think it is very well designed. I think this has a great collection of data for people who are already semi-knowledgeable about electronics, such as learning how to salvage components from old electronics, but if you are starting out on electronics for the first time I would not recommend this course.
The course uses circuit diagrams almost immediately without really teaching how to interpret them. With no wiring diagrams or pictures of the circuits you are dumped head first in the deep end on deciphering circuit diagrams in order to follow along with the projects.