Hawaii Robo LabsArduino & ESP32 dashboard
Block coding with the real C++ appearing beside it, compiled on our servers and burned to the board over USB from the browser. The first lesson ends with a blinking LED, not a driver install.
Learn moreRobotics education · Utility robots as a service
Snap the blocks. See the code. Run it on a real robot.
Hawaii Robo Labs turns any classroom with a browser into a robotics lab — and any business with a floor to cover into a robot operator. One platform, from a blinking LED to a ROS 2 rover to a robot on subscription.
- No install
- Chrome / Edge
- Arduino
- ESP32
- ROS 2
Uno R3 connectedBurn complete · LED blinking
Navigator Pro onlineE-stop armed · odom publishing
6 boards supported
58 guided projects
74 Knowledge Base articles
3 learning tracks
0 installs on student PCs
One login, five workspaces
Every role gets a dashboard built for the job in front of it.
Students build and run. Teachers assign and measure. Each workspace is a product in its own right — and they share one account, one Knowledge Base and one set of robots.
ROS 2 dashboard
The same blocks generate rclpy Python and run it on a real rover over a secure tunnel — with a big red EMERGENCY STOP, a diagnostics panel and, for staff, a terminal on the robot.
Learn moreComputer Vision AI
Students collect examples, train a model in the browser and test it live: image classification, object detection, pose, hand pose, sound, text and numbers. Nothing leaves the classroom until they save.
Learn moreTeacher dashboard
Set tasks and tests with milestones, group students, open any student’s project to help, and export progress reports to Excel or PDF for the parent evening.
Learn moreKnowledge Base
Seventy-four illustrated articles that pair every showcase project with its wiring, blocks, generated code and what the student should see. A teacher who has never held an Arduino can run the lesson.
Learn moreHow it works
From first block to a moving robot, inside one lesson.
Sign in with a class key
Teachers hand out a registration key; students land in the right class and plan. No installs, no accounts to create by hand.
Snap blocks, read the code
A toolbox built for the parts in the kit. The generated Arduino C++ or ROS 2 Python updates live beside the blocks.
Burn or run
Arduino and ESP32 are flashed over USB from the browser. ROS 2 programs run on the robot through its own secure tunnel.
Assign, measure, report
Teachers set tasks with milestones and due dates; progress rolls up into reports the school can put in front of parents and governors.
What the student drags
on start
set pin 13 as OUTPUT
forever
digital write pin 13 HIGH
wait 1000 ms
digital write pin 13 LOW
wait 1000 ms
What the board receives
// Generated by Hawaii Robo Labs — Arduino Uno void setup() { pinMode(13, OUTPUT); } void loop() { digitalWrite(13, HIGH); delay(1000); digitalWrite(13, LOW); delay(1000); }
Curriculum & learning path
A pathway, not a one-off workshop.
Robotics education should not stop at a blinking LED. The syllabus is arranged by the student’s age and skill level and runs the whole way — electronics, sensors, Arduino and ESP32, Python, ROS 2, computer vision, AI and autonomous robotics — on one account, with the projects and articles for every step.
1
Foundations
Electronics, sensors and actuators, and a first program written in blocks.
- electronics
- sensors & actuators
- Blockly
- motor control
2
Building
Arduino and ESP32 projects, automation and IoT, moving from blocks into the Arduino C/C++ they generate.
- Arduino
- ESP32 & IoT
- Arduino C/C++
- automation
3
Advanced
Python and ROS 2 on real robots, computer vision and models the students train themselves.
- Python
- ROS 2
- computer vision
- machine learning
4
Autonomous robotics
A robot that senses, decides and acts — solving a problem the student chose.
- autonomous robotics
- real-world projects
- industry applications
Robot platforms
Real robots, driven by code a twelve-year-old can read.
Every platform we support is wired into the dashboard the same way: one installer per robot, one emergency stop, one set of blocks. Start with the Navigator Pro rover; more families are on the way.
Available now
Mecanum rover · ROS 2
Navigator Pro
Four mecanum wheels, a 5-axis arm and a depth camera. Drives forward, turns and strafes sideways; publishes odometry, IMU and lidar. Six showcase projects and a full set-up guide included.
ROS 2/cmd_velstrafeodom · imulidar option
Coming soon
Walking humanoid
Atlas H
A bipedal humanoid for the class that has outgrown wheels — gait, balance and a camera, programmed from the same workspace.
humanoidwalk · turnimu
Utility robots · subscription
The same robots, put to work.
Beyond the classroom, we are bringing utility robots to businesses on a monthly subscription — reception, delivery, inspection and cleaning — with maintenance, updates and replacement included, and the same cloud dashboard watching over every unit.
Reception & hospitality
Greets, guides and answers — the front desk that never leaves the desk.
Delivery & logistics
Moves trays, parcels and stock between rooms on a schedule you set.
Inspection & patrol
Walks the site at night with a camera and a checklist, and reports what changed.
Cleaning & facilities
Floors covered on a plan, with a map of what was done and when.
Why schools switch
Less setup, more evidence.
Nobody had to install a thing on our computers. Twenty-eight students were blinking LEDs in the first forty minutes.
The Knowledge Base is what sold it. I can teach the ultrasonic lesson without having built the circuit myself the night before.
Progress reports straight to PDF for the governors' meeting. That alone justified the subscription.
See it running with your own class — or your own building.
A 30-minute demo covers the academy platform end to end, and where a utility robot could earn its keep on your site.