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