Development of a DIY robot kit for educators

The goal of the project is to extend the low-cost DIY robot kit for educators, including the designs, tutorials, and basic use-case scenarios. All of the parts of the modular DIY robot kit are 3D-printable, and together with basic low-cost electronics and sensors are used to assemble the robot, for a successful operation. Extensive and simple guidelines of how to print and assemble the robot are to be provided, so that non-expert staff in robotics, electronics or IoT programming, will be able to follow them successfully. In addition, the Blockly graphical UI will be extended with configurable blocks that will allow the easy though fine-grained operation of the robot. This project will be developed in collaboration with Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS), as it will be based on the previous GSoC projects of the applicants of 2019 and 2021. It will refine the robot assembly guidelines, manual for the installation of the software stack (which will be automated as much as possible in order to support the continuous integration of software updates), and will extend the stack both in terms of the front-end of Google Blockly and the back end code in order to facilitate the robot operation and programming.