Kevin McAleer Courses

MicroPython & WiFi

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Connect NodeMCU/ESP8266 and ESP32 devices to Wi-Fi with MicroPython, then send WeatherBot sensor data through MQTT.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Build Your Own AI Assistant - Creating a Voice-Activated System

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Build a Python- and Raspberry Pi-based voice assistant by mapping its architecture and speech data flow, then run working code for an AI comedian.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Galactic Guitar Hero Game Using Pimoroni Galactic Unicorn and MicroPython

Build a Guitar Hero-style game on a Raspberry Pi Pico W with MicroPython, using the Galactic Unicorn’s buttons, switches, and display.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learn MicroPython - Loops and Operators

Learn MicroPython loops, indentation, parameters, and operators through short demonstration programs.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learn MicroPython - If, Else & Data Types

Use MicroPython data types and conditional statements to control program flow with strings, numbers, collections, bytes, and if/else examples.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Build Your Own Ultrasonic Radar Robot - Part 1: Design and Display

Explore a SMARS robot project that combines an ultrasonic radar display, simple trigonometry, and a 3D-designed chassis.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Build Your Own Web Server Using a Raspberry Pi Pico W Using Phew

Build an interactive web server on a Raspberry Pi Pico W with Phew, using MicroPython, templates, logging, Wi-Fi, and forms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pimoroni Enviro+ Air Quality Sensor Review and Tutorial

Explore the Pimoroni Enviro+ Hat with Raspberry Pi and Python to measure air quality, temperature, light, sound, humidity, and pressure.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Mecanum Wheeled Robot Rover - Design and Functionality

Explores how Mecanum wheels and motor encoders enable Rover to move precisely in any direction.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Create Cute Robots in Fusion 360

Learn to model a cute robot head in Fusion 360 using fit-point splines, lofts, sketch intersections, and form techniques.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building the Periodic Table of Robotics - Part 1: Page Creation

Build a robotics reference page with GitHub Pages, Markdown, Jekyll, and Bootstrap.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Halloween Robot Design in Fusion 360

Design a Halloween ghost robot in Fusion 360, building a printable body around the SMARS chassis for line-following robots.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Raspberry Pi Pico - Tic-Tac-Toe Playing Robot: Pico-Tico

Build a Raspberry Pi Pico robot that draws and plays Tic-Tac-Toe using servos, inverse kinematics, MicroPython, and a minimax strategy.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Jetson Nano Custom Object Detection - How to Train Your Own AI

Train a Jetson Nano to detect custom robots in live video using a MobileNet SSD model.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Face Detection Using OpenCV Using a Raspberry Pi Zero

Use OpenCV and Python on a Raspberry Pi Zero to build a robot that detects faces and explore how computer vision and machine learning work.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video