BreadboardBot

BreadboardBot is a mini-breadboard with a small microcontroller plugged into it and two servo-motors with a battery stuck to the back.

To put it differently, it is an educational robotics platform that is:

• Cheap: the cost of parts is under $20 on AliExpress as of 2023.
• Easy to build: it really is just two servo motors and a battery stuck to the back of a breadboard.
• Easy to program thanks to CircuitPython.
• Fun: even in its most basic form it is already a cute programmable line-follower robot with an ultrasonic distance sensor.
• Creatively extensible: you can plug a variety of sensors or actuators into it, enabling your robot to play music, show images on a screen, measure temperature, be remotely controlled from your smartphone, balance itself, and more. You can also upgrade the microcontroller to add Wifi, camera and microphone, learning some web-development and machine learning along the way!

To get started with the BreadboardBot you need to:

1. Order the necessary parts.
2. Assemble them.
3. Check out the fun things you can do with your robot.

Leave your feedback or propose new ideas as issues or discussions in the project’s repository.

License

• Any original code in the project is MIT-licensed. The codebase includes CircuitPython libraries, which are also MIT-licensed.
• This documentation and instructions are CC-BY-NC-SA.