Robotics Club

• The Robotics Club at Wake Forest University aims to allow students to engage in robotics projects regardless of their experience level. We help them achieve this by providing them with the materials, mentorship, and practical skills they need to work with robotics at the university level and beyond. 
• Check out the projects Robotics Club is working on this semester! As always, absolutely no experience is required to participate in Robotics Club; it’s a really great place to start learning about coding or hardware! However, there are also lots of more challenging opportunities for those with more experience!

XRP Robotics Platform

This is a great project for:

• Beginner coders / python users
• People of all experience levels interpreting and calibrating sensor data
• Experienced coders interfacing with additional sensors and add-ons to create more
  complex functionality
  We are continuing our work on programming XRP robots to run autonomously from last year!
  The robots come mostly assembled, allowing us to focus on coding them through XRP’s web
  interface. The robots feature an ultrasonic distance sensor, an IMU unit, and a downward facing
  color detector (allowing it to follow a line on the ground), but offer lots of opportunities for
  expansion with additional sensors. The web interface offers a block coding environment and a
  Python environment, making it a great place to start coding without worrying about syntax, or
  getting some experience working with Python (and XRP’s well-documented libraries)!

R2D2 Project:

This is a great project for:

• Beginners and people with experience in hardware design
• Beginners and people with experience with C/C++ / the Arduino platform
• People with experience or who want to learn CAD / industrial design
  This semester we have started building a replica R2D2 droid! We are creating all of the circuit
  boards by hand, working with DC motors, motor drivers, ESP32s, and the Arduino platform. We
  are also planning on adding lots of sensors, a system to control the robot remotely, LEDs and a
  speaker, and there are opportunities to add in lots of more fun components. This is a great
  project to get some experience working with hardware, write C/C++ code and get familiar with
  the Arduino platform, and there are also industrial design and CAD opportunities to build the
  outer shell!
  
  If you have a robotics project you would like to work on with the Robotics Club, we would love to
  hear about it and see what we can do to work on it in the club!
  See everyone Mondays at 5:15 in the WakerSpace!
• These project groups change and expand every semester, so if you are interested, feel free to send a message to the email under Contact Information below. Once again, no experience with robotics, programming, or other technical knowledge is required.

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