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Courses

Tutorials answer questions. Courses build robots. Below are two kinds of courses:

Paid project courses — built around a specific kit you buy. Start at lesson 1, finish with a working robot. Included with the Subscriber plan ($49/mo). Free preview lessons let you try before subscribing.
Free curated paths — hand-built tours through the 136 free tutorial lessons. No sub, no signup, just open and read.

Paid courses · Subscriber plan

$49/mo unlocks all of these (and every future course). Free preview lessons available without a sub.

From Blink to Bot — ESP32-S3 robotics with the Freenove Starter Kit

A complete 10-lesson arc from your first GPIO to a wandering autonomous desk-bot, written around the Freenove FNK0082 starter kit.

10 lessons · ~4.5 hours · 3 free preview, 7 subscriber-only

Hardware: Freenove Ultimate Starter Kit for ESP32-S3 (FNK0082)

Free curated paths

Hand-built tours through the free curriculum. No sub, no signup — just open and read.

Beginner

Build Your First Robot

From zero to a driving, turning, obstacle-avoiding bot

8 steps·~3.6 hours·Simulator practice in 4 steps

What you'll learn

→ESP32 dev loop and toolchain
→Actuators & PWM (servos, BLDC, steppers)
→Coordinate frames you can trust
→Differential drive, simulator-first
→Encoders + IMUs for closed-loop control
→PID tuning with a live widget
→Sim-to-real survival tactics
→Obstacle avoidance with RRT

Open the path →Free · all 8 steps live

What's included

✓8 published lessons (read or skim, your call)
✓4 auto-graded simulator exercises
✓Live PID + RRT widgets you can tune
✓BOM with affiliate buy links
✓Progress tracking saved locally
✓AI tutor on every lesson (BYOK)

Honest pricing: everything in this path is free. A paid edition with video walkthroughs and a 1:1 review of your finished build is on the roadmap — we'll email subscribers when it lands.

More paths you can start today

Each is a full track from the curriculum — 10–12 published lessons, ready now.

Intermediate

ROS 2 from First Principles

12 lessons covering nodes, topics, services, launch files, TF, URDF, Nav2, and MoveIt.

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Intermediate

Kinematics & Dynamics

10 lessons from rigid-body transforms through screw theory, Jacobians, and Lagrangian dynamics.

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Advanced

State Estimation & SLAM

10 lessons — Bayes filters, Kalman from scratch, particle filters, factor graphs, modern learned SLAM.

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