Learning path · Intermediate

AI with Arduino and ESP32

Learn how artificial intelligence works by building it: teach a neuron, a colour detector and a temperature predictor, run neural networks on the ESP32, control things with your voice and camera, and build AI chat projects with Claude.

  • 13 lessons
  • about 17 h
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AI with Arduino and ESP32

About this path

Artificial intelligence can seem like magic, but it is built from ideas you can try yourself. This path starts with the basics: you teach a single artificial neuron, build a colour detector that learns from examples and train a model that predicts tomorrow's room temperature.

Then you run real neural networks on the ESP32 with Edge Impulse: a magic wand that recognises gestures and a detector that notices when a machine sounds wrong. You play rock-paper-scissors against an AI that sees your hand, control a room with your voice, and finally connect the ESP32 to Claude, a large language model, to build a chat buddy, a talking plant and a desk assistant you can talk to.

You need the EEMENTOR IoT ESP32 Starter Kit or the UNO R3 Starter Kit, and for some lessons the 45-in-1 Sensor Kit. The chatbot lessons use a paid API key that an adult sets up.

Kits you need

Lessons in this path

Stage 1 · Lessons 1–1

Beginner

Start here: first circuits and one new part at a time.

  • 1 lessons
  • 1 hours

  1. Lesson 1

Stage 2 · Lessons 2–6

Intermediate

Combine parts, use more sensors and connect your projects.

  • 5 lessons
  • 5.5 hours

  1. Lesson 2

  2. Lesson 3

  3. Lesson 4

  4. Lesson 5

  5. Lesson 6

Stage 3 · Lessons 7–13

Advanced

Bigger builds that bring everything you've learned together.

  • 7 lessons
  • 10.5 hours

  1. Lesson 7

  2. Lesson 8

  3. Lesson 9

  4. Lesson 10

  5. Lesson 11

  6. Lesson 12

  7. Lesson 13