michiganrobotics/rob311 resource

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases

Adoption not part of the score

1118 stars · 219 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ROB 311 is an open undergraduate robotics course from the University of Michigan covering mechanical design, actuation, instrumentation, and rigid body dynamics, centered on building a basketball-balancing ballbot. The repository provides lecture videos, slides, lab assignments, and a bill of materials for the hardware project.

Use cases

• learn robotics fundamentals from a university course
• build a self-balancing ballbot
• study rigid body kinematics and dynamics
• find a robotics course with hands-on hardware labs
• teach an undergraduate robotics class
• learn about motors, transmissions, and motor drivers
• simulate robot dynamics in Python

When to choose

• you want a structured, video-based introduction to building physical robots
• you need course materials including labs and a bill of materials for a ballbot project
• you are an educator looking for a ready-made robotics curriculum

When to avoid

• you need software-only robotics simulation without hardware
• you want an advanced graduate-level robotics course
• you cannot access fabrication equipment like 3D printers or laser cutters needed for the labs

Facets

learning-resource · maturity stable

simulation robotics robotics education tutorials python cross-platform robotics-course ballbot university-of-michigan mechanical-design control-systems kinematics lecture-videos hardware-labs education

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="michiganrobotics/rob311")