PROTOTYPING.md

If you want to make robots, but you don't know where to start, well, you can start here.

• 📚 Read / Text
• 📺 Watch / Video
• 💰 Buy / Requires purchase
• 🐾 Very easy / Skimmable
• ‼️ Essential / Most helpful
• 👋 Hands-on

Objectives

• Get at strong foundation in open-source electronics and prototyping
• Gain intuition on mechanical prototyping and design with dc brush motors, servo motors and stepper motors
• Apply basic machine learning and computer vision to a small project

Arduino for Beginners

• 💰‼️👋 Affortable Very Basic Arduino Starter Kit from DFRobot
• 💰‼️📚 Simon Monk: Arduino Next Steps
• 📺 Jeremy Blum Arduino Playlist: 15 Videos
• ‼️📚 Adafruit Motor Selection Guide
• ‼️📚 Adafruit Motor Shield V2 for Arduino
• 🐾📚 Simon Monk Basic Arduino: 18 lessons
• 🐾📚 Sparkfun Manual
• 🐾📚 DFRobot Manual
• 🐾📺 Official Arduino Tutorials by the Creator of Arduino

Raspberry Pi for Beginners

• 💰‼️ Official Raspberry Pi Kit | Official Raspberry Pi AI Camera
• ‼️🐾📚 Official Raspberry Pi Setting up Video from Raspberry Pi Foundations
• 🐾📚 Simon Monk Basic Raspberry Pi: 13 lessons

Hands-on Facial Recognition Project for Beginners

• ‼️👋📚 Face Recognition Library

Hands-on Mechanical Prototyping Projects for Beginners

• 💰 ‼️👋Instructables JJ Robots Projects
  • Egg drawer robot, board drawing robot, scara robot arm, balancing robot, hockey robot, camera slider