Arduino Alvik Robot - Makers Guide

Let’s play with Alvik, a full-featured robot from Arduino that packs a lot of power into a tiny package.

The Arduino Alvik is a tiny robot with some impressive features. This dual-processor design is packed with advanced sensors and can be easily expanded for custom applications, making it ideal for both makers and educators.

Alvik can be programmed in MicroPython or C++, and Arduino has provided libraries for each language to facilitate development. The robot comes fully assembled with MicroPython and several demo programs already installed.

Today, we will examine the Alvik hardware, and after that, we’ll get into programming the little bot. You’ll see how easy it is to work with Alvik using the Arduino Labs for MicroPython editor and the Arduino IDE.

We’ll also see how to add servo motors and I2C devices to Alvik.

Here is the Table Of Contents for today's video:

00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - The Arduino Alvik
03:26 - Look at Alvik
05:34 - Red Program (Touch Mode)
07:23 - Green Program (Hand Follower)
08:40 - Blue Program (Line Follower)
10:00 - MicroPython Programming
11:22 - Arduino Lab for MicroPython
18:13 - C++ Programming
21:34 - Alvik Drive example
24:00 - Adding a Servo Motor
26:58 - Alvik I2C
33:57 - Conclusion

If you are looking for a high-quality robotics platform for education or development, you should check out the Arduino Alvik. It may be the little guy you are looking for!

[Dronebotworkshop]

Finally getting back to "normal" around here and I was thrilled start making videos again! My mom is back from the hospital and we've spent the last month establishing our new schedule. Thanks to everyone who sent well-wishes and words of encouragement for her.

For the last few months I have been doing home renovations to set up our house for wheelchair access, so it was great to finally get back and work with electronics again! You should be seeing videos on a regular basis from now on.


Bill

[colepdx]

Happy to see DroneBot videos again.
I'm not convinced that Alvik is a good value at $145 retail.

[RommudohDev]

Thank you for introducing the Alvik! I'm especially glad to see an actual robot on your channel again. It's nice that you give an overview over such a broad selection of application topics!

[alanturner]

Great news with your mum best regards to her from Warrington, England. Good to see you back all the best😊

[budgetstacker]

Great to hear about your mom and real nice to see your great videos coming in again. Hadn't even heard they came out with this. Some interesting concepts in it's design.

[mdandry]

Glad to see you back. I wish your family well. ✊🏻

[Gaominte]

Glad to see a new video from you! All the best!!!

[giuseppeBG]

Welcome back and thanks for the great video.

[abpccpba]

Good to see you are back to normal. : = }}

[AlphaAvocet]

Great video, thanks and welcome back!

[_mrcrypt]

Cool bit of kit, as they say. Great walkthrough! Thanks!! 👍

[bryanfoot]

Love your content so much it's so educational

[calbrig]

I’m sorry to here about your mom. Family first of course. Do you plan on working on db1? Or are you moving on from this project.

[fahmywaleed]

That looks pretty cool. Could not find it on amazon canada, can you put a link from where we can get it, thanks

[Dubot-fv]

This is a great project development city😁🤖

[ronakvyas]

Hello sir. Can you make a tutorial about digital potentiometers, and how to use them for controlling brightness of high power LEDs and speaker volume?

[colcoomagnumar]

Slightly off topic but what is that blue thing that holds all the tools neatly behind called?

[malcolmgibson]

Looks like I'll be buying another arduino product. Thanks for another interesting video.

[yuhuaxiao]

does it support scratch programming now? woundering if grade 6/7 could use it as entry to programming

[protonjinx]

im swedish and I cant associate "Alvik" with any swedish word.... "Elf" is "Älva" in swedish