Winter School Robotics – is an express course on all the basics necessary to start creating their own devices and robots. The course consists of knowledge from different fields:

• physics
• informatics
• Electronics and Electrical Engineering
• Mechatronics
• Engineering and technical design

Courses help defined with future profession, to understand the process of designing digital electronic devices, to increase knowledge on these areas.

Course content:

• Introduction to Robotics
• Microcontrollers and Arduino platform
• Alternative robotic platform
• Hardware-based programming
• foundations of Electrical Engineering
• Fundamentals of Mechatronics
• The first devices based on light and sound effects
• Relays and buttons
• Types of motors. Servos.
• Controlling the robot remotely.
• Algorithms for robot control. .
• Traffic on the lines, and other simple functions of robots.

Involve different age groups for students during school and student holidays. In the course of 5 days (two 3-hour sessions).

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