Welcome to Droid Academy:
A hands-on robotics course for ages 7 to 80. No experience needed. Just curiosity.
Build & Code Droid E-32
In 8 one-hour lessons, you’ll learn electronics basics and bring E-32, our custom R2D2-style droid, to life. Servos, motors, IR flame sensors, and sonic sensors — E-32 will see, move, and react.
At its core is the ESP32, a modern microcontroller (computer) and a big leap beyond older boards like Arduino or Micro:bit.
Younger students use block coding. Older students use MicroPython. Same robot. Same core lessons. Depth adjusts to you.
Come once a week or once a month. No need to commit to every session.
This is more than robotics. It’s your launchpad to voice commands, machine learning, and the smart tech of tomorrow.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
BASIC ELECTRONICS
Atoms and Electrons
Voltage, Current and Resistance
How Computers Use Electricity: Binary
Digital vs Analog
How Computers Work
Memory: Two Kinds
Why a Microcontroller (and Not a Laptop)?
Pulses — The Idea Behind Half of E-32’s Electronics
The LED
The Ultrasonic Sensor
Actuators — Motors and Servos
CODING
Understanding Software, IDEs and MicroPython (Seniors)/BIPES (Juniors)
PRACTICAL CODING – CONTROLLING THE DROID
COST
R180/1hr session
DURATION
The full course is 8 sessions. 1 Session = 1hr.
WHERE
Workshop in Glencairn, Cape Town
WHEN
Book times that suite you