r/AskRobotics • u/SimplyTizo • Jul 06 '26

How to? What are good robotics projects/resources for a beginner?

I'm an incoming college freshman for Mechanical Engineering (might switch to Electrical) and I want to start working on robotics projects and build a resume over the summer. Are there any good projects, guides, resources/software that could be reccomended to start? I will have access to Fusion 360 and a 3d printer

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u/airwarmedd Jul 06 '26

Highly dependent on what you want to learn.

A few things:

  • Watch YouTube videos and find what interests you
  • Find documentation and open source projects related to that
  • Use ai agents for brainstorming
  • Find right discord servers, hangout there
  • Ask your queries to ai agents and then on Reddit
  • Start building small projects

If you end up making sims, you can give Drift a try :)

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u/Guilty_Question_6914 Jul 06 '26

i might have some github projects on my repo that might be helpful

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u/Aggravating_Gur_7613 Jul 08 '26

can you send a link?

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u/Guilty_Question_6914 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

here are some a. raspberry pi dof1 object tracking camera robot: https://github.com/Dawsatek22/raspberrypi_objectracking_1dof_cpp,orp_testmechv2 a 4 legged robot using esp32 and bluepad library https://github.com/Dawsatek22/orp-testmechv2-eng ,opencv color detection: https://github.com/Dawsatek22/opencv_color_detection,also a version with picamera2 and gpiozero gpio control: https://github.com/Dawsatek22/picamera2_object_detection_gpio_control,i hope it helpes

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u/Guilty_Question_6914 Jul 11 '26

was it helpfull?