
Learn the basics of robotics and move toward motion, control systems, and IoT, then build line follower, obstacle-avoiding, and IoT explorer robots.
Explore how actuators power robot movement, from DC motors to gearboxes, stepper and linear actuators, plus hydraulic and pneumatic systems for precise control.
Explore basic electronic components—resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, switches, and integrated circuits—along with standard circuit symbols and color-coded resistors, potentiometers, LDRs, FSRs, and thermostats.
Simulate a light-sensitive dimmer circuit in Tinkercad to explore a transistor, resistor, and photoresistor that drives an LED; the LED lights up in dark and turns off in bright light.
Learn to set up the Arduino IDE, configure the Magic Bullet board, and program a basic blink example that toggles an LED using digital output and delay.
Identify the kit components and power options, then examine the board’s two gear motors, battery pack, five infrared sensors, a ball cluster, ultrasonic sensor, and on/off switch.
Explore how obstacle avoidance robots teach sensors, motor control, power management, and algorithm development, highlighting left hand rule, right hand rule, bug and hybrid algorithms.
Build a basic obstacle avoidance robot using an ultrasonic sensor and ping library to measure distance and trigger left turns when obstacles are detected.
Develop a five-sensor line follower using PID control, calibrate under varying lighting, read sensors with the QPR library, and drive motors via PWM with an OLED display for feedback.
control a bluetooth remote car with a smartphone using the magic beat module and arduino, sending serial data to drive motors and trigger a horn via a dedicated app.
In this course we are going to teach you from the basics of robotics to building your own robot. 10-20 years ago Robots used to be only in the research institutes & factories, but nowadays robots are in common use in various applications. Even in our households, doing different tasks such as cleaning the floors.
So learning robotics from early on is a great investment for the future.
We are starting all the way from basic electronics, programming and moving towards robot motion and a bit into control systems & IoT as well. These are few of the most sought after skills in the world today.
At the end we are going to teach you how to build several wheeled robots such as,
Line follower
Obstacle avoid robot
Bluetooth Control robot
To effectively follow the practical of this course you need to have a magicbot robot kit with a magicbit development board. But you can build your own robot as well using a generic esp32 board and external components, we will include a guide for that as well.
Course is conducted by magicbit, an STEM education company which develops hardware and software tools to enable easy access for innovation, in collaboration with Migara Amithodana, an industrial veteran with years of experience.