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rKernel Academy

Learn robotics by building robots

0 episodes across 4 series, 0 min in total. Filmed on the hardware in our shop, with the reasoning left in rather than edited out. Free, no sign-up.

Beginner · 0 episodes · 0 min

Robotics Electronics Foundations

Four sessions on the electronics that decide whether a robot works: power budgets, logic levels, motor drivers and the debugging habits that find a fault in minutes instead of evenings. No prior circuits course assumed.

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Beginner · 0 episodes · 0 min

Build a Line Follower That Actually Corners

A complete first robot, built the way an engineer would build it. We assemble the drivetrain, read an eight-channel sensor array properly, write a PID controller from the equations up, and then tune it on a real track until it takes a hairpin at speed.

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Intermediate · 0 episodes · 0 min

ROS 2 Navigation from Scratch

Most ROS 2 tutorials stop at the simulator. This series runs on a physical rover: we wire a Pi 5 to a Pico motor controller, publish honest odometry, fuse it with an IMU, map a room with slam_toolbox and finish by sending navigation goals through Nav2.

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Advanced · 0 episodes · 0 min

Design and Control a 6-Axis Arm

Forward and inverse kinematics derived on paper, then written in Python you can follow line by line, then run on a desktop arm built from serial bus servos. Ends with trajectory planning and a pick-and-place routine driven by a camera.

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