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Embedded Systems and Robotics Fluency

Course

This course will teach you the basics behind embedded systems, including electrical circuits, digital logic, and computer architecture. You will then learn how these pieces combine to create embedded systems, robotics, and autonomous systems.

This course will teach you the basics behind embedded systems, including electrical circuits, digital logic, and computer architecture. You will then learn how these pieces combine to create embedded systems, robotics, and autonomous systems.

Fluency

7 hours

Completion Certificate

Last Updated September 7, 2023

Prerequisites:

No experience required

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Intro to Circuits

Introduction to Circuits!

Lesson 2

Fundamentals of Digital Logic

In this lesson, you will learn how to write numbers in binary number format, yransform bits using the digital logic gates AND, OR, and NOT, and combine logic gates into logic circuits.

Lesson 3

Intro to Computer Architecture

In this lesson, you will become familiar with the hardware used in key subsystems of a computer, including processing, storage, memory, and networking.

Lesson 4

Intro to Embedded Systems

This lesson covers where to use embedded systems, their advantages and disadvantages, along with how to connect devices to them, and finally, a brief introduction on how to program embedded systems.

Lesson 5

Intro to Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Autonomous system is one of the highest-impact, most in-demand skills. In this lesson, we'll introduce you to the fundamental concepts and terms that you'll need to step into this amazing world.

Taught By The Best

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Abe Feinberg

Science Teacher and Educational Psychologist

Abe is a science teacher and educational psychologist who loves learning and finding out how things work. He has a particular interest in using AI to optimize education, and his ultimate goal is to replace himself with a robot that can teach better than he can.

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David Silver

Staff Software Engineer at Kodiak Robotics

David works on Self-driving trucks at Kodiak. As a Staff Software Engineer, David writes planning, control, simulation and mapping software for self-driving trucks.

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