Further suggested areas to learn about

You have some ideas for a future robot (or even a few future robots) that you want to build. Learning about some other skills will allow you to take those designs further and get more creative. Let’s dive in.

Electronics

Refer to the Electronics enhancements section earlier in this chapter for inspiration here. To recap, see the following:

• Learn about designing circuits with stripboard or veroboard and further soldering skills.
• Learn more about designing PCBs with tools such as KiCad. You place parts such as Raspberry Pi Pico (or, if you are braver, an RP2040) into the schematic editor to work out their connections.
• Consider how to keep the cabling tidy, perhaps designing cable routing into drawings and CAD designs for a very tidy robot.
• Use connectors that reduce vibration and connect only one way to reduce mistakes.

There are further ways to extend your robots toolbox:

• Oscilloscopes to view circuit...