Guiding Students to Master Robotics Technology
I spend my Saturdays volunteering at a public library makerspace, the South San Francisco Public Library. I help people operate a few 3D printers, a CNC mill, vinyl cutter, etc. While preparing for my annual RoboGames entry, I thought it’d be cool to teach the library’s patrons about robotics. I designed a robot kit, partly 3D printed, with electronics that has to be soldered, and running with an Arduino Nano. The three classes are for 3D CAD modelling, soldering, and programming. The robots are designed to be cheap enough for the library to actually give away. All of my courseware is open source, hosted on GitHub. A lot of the tools and parts were donated by people I know in my professional circles. Here’s a link to the class content: click here This blog post is about what I observed, what I did right, what I did wrong. Day 1 – July 7 2018 Today is the 3D modelling class! For reference, all the class material used on this date is git hash 31871E2325BAFFEC8535DCAC8AB0131F2227401C. Use this to see what improvements were made to the class content after this date. Click Here to see this particular lesson’s page. Promotion, Registration, and Attendance The advertising is mainly from a video on the library’s events page. (this was done for me by library staff, the video is shown above if you want to see it) Class size has to be limited to 10.…
