Welcome to the DIY (Do It Yourself) space from the Electronic Systems team of IIT Madras.
You can build a cool gadget on your own in three easy steps.
Build a Robot using the Raspberry Pi Pico WH Controller. This board was first released in June 2022. It has a Cortex M0 dual core RP2040 MCU at 133MHz which has WiFi and BLE built into the controller board. It can easily be coded in MicroPython, C and C++. The pins of this board are breadboard compatible.
Build a Robot using the ESP8266 Controller. This board was first released in August 2014. If you choose this controller you get an Xtensa dual core MCU at 80MHz which has only WiFi. This board can be coded using the Arduino IDE and a plugin library. The pins of this board are not breadboard compatible.
Build a Robot using the Arduino UNO board. This board was first released in 2010 and is quite popular among DIY enthusiasts. It has an ATMEGA328P chip clocked at 16Mhz. It does not have WiFi or Bluetooth built in. But you can add an HC05 module to enable bluetooth. This is a standalone board.
Overview of parts used in the robots that can play soccer.