The TrackBot Explorer. The Morning Set
VAT inc
Available for: 8+ years old
5 days, 16 - 20 Feb’26
Start at 9.00 until 12.10
The TrackBot Explorer is a fun and educational DIY robotics project designed for children aged 8 and up. In this project, kids build a tracked robot powered by an ESP32 WROOM controller and a DRV8833 motor driver, using two motors and two durable tracks. Part of the robot’s structure is created with Technic-style blocks, encouraging creativity and hands-on mechanical thinking.
The robot is wirelessly controlled via Bluetooth using a smart control ring with five buttons: forward, backward, left, right, and stop, making it intuitive and exciting to drive.
This project takes place during a half-term break robotics camp, where children assemble the robot, learn to read basic electronic schematics, and program its behavior using RobiumCode, a beginner-friendly block-based editor. After the camp, each participant takes their own TrackBot Explorer home to continue exploring and learning.
That is take home project!
The Camp Dates and Time
5 days, from 16 - 20 Feb’26
Start at 9.00 until 12.10
Age: from 8 years old (to 11)
Location
Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College.
Parkshot, Richmond TW9 2RE
The closest parking at the Old Deer Park (Extension).
The learning outcomes
- Understand the basics of how a differential gear works.
- Learn how electric motors create movement.
- Assemble a working car from modular mechanical parts.
- Control motor speed and direction using a motor driver.
- Connect to and control the car via BlueTooth smart ring.
- Create simple programs using block-based coding.
- Draw a basic wiring diagram in Fritzing.
- Take home a fully working car they built themselves.
There are some requirements exist for the course:
1. You must be confident in using a computer, keyboard and mouse. At the good user level.
2. Know how we save files on a computer, what a file and folders are, etc.
3. Be able to switch between windows in the operating system. Use the keys’ shortcuts.
4. No previous experience with 3D modeling is required
5. No previous experience Robotics is required.