Raspberry Pi Robotics

Build a real tracked robot and teach it to drive a course on its own — from blinking a light to autonomous line-following. A hands-on program with the Raspberry Pi and the Adeept RaspTank kit, where every lesson runs on the actual robot.

RaspTank robot program

10–16Ages
6 weeksLength
IntermediateLevel

A step-by-step robotics course built around a Raspberry Pi and a tracked RaspTank robot. Each week adds one real skill — sensing, movement, or control — until the robot can drive a marked course by itself. Students write Python, wire real sensors, and tune the robot against real-world physics.

You’ll build: a robot that lights up, measures distance, drives and turns on command, avoids obstacles, and follows a line on its own.

Hardware program. Each student needs a Raspberry Pi and an Adeept RaspTank (tracked robot) kit. We can supply kits or run it with a classroom set — ask us.

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Week 1
Lights & GPIO
Control the robot’s onboard LEDs and RGB lights, and learn how the Raspberry Pi’s pins switch things on and off.
Week 2
Ultrasonic Sensing
Measure distance with an ultrasonic sensor, and clean up noisy readings so the robot can trust what it “sees.”
Week 3
Motors & Movement
Drive the tracks with PWM, then calibrate straight driving and turns so the robot can trace a square.
Week 4
Obstacle Avoidance
Write a reactive control loop: the robot watches the distance sensor, stops, and steers around things in its path.
Week 5
Line Following
Read the infrared line sensors, use different speeds on each track for smooth corrections, and recover when the line is lost.
Week 6
Course Challenge
Tune and race the robot around a marked track. Students learn why real robotics needs iterative calibration — battery, traction, and floor surface all matter.

Curriculum adapted from the open-source RaspTank robotics course by Nikolay Goloborodko (MIT licensed). For the self-paced, no-kit version, see the Robotics Lab.