Walk into any robotics camp and you'll see the same thing: kids snapping together plastic bricks, dragging blocks on a screen, building projects designed to be disposable.
LEGO, VEX, mBot — colorful plastic that teaches kids engineering is playing with expensive blocks. It's not.
Online courses teach concepts. They don't teach how to solder a circuit board, debug a sensor, or hold something you designed in your hands.
3D printing over here. Coding over there. Electronics somewhere else. Three classes, three kits, zero connection. Real engineering doesn't work that way.
Build it, show mom, put it on a shelf. Nothing connects to anything else. Nothing has value beyond the classroom.
Every other program teaches 3D printing or electronics or coding — separate classes, separate hardware, no connection. At TBL, one robot is the shared platform across all three disciplines.
Design custom shells, wheel variants, sensor mounts, and functional attachments. CAD → print → test → redesign. Real engineering iteration.
Solder the flex PCB, wire I²C sensors, read schematics, debug with a multimeter. Build the robot and understand every component.
Block coding → Arduino C++ → autonomous navigation → on-device machine learning. Program a robot that thinks for itself.
ProtoBot runs on an ESP32-C6 RISC-V microcontroller — the same architecture used in next-gen IoT devices. Its BNO085 9-axis IMU is the same class of sensor found in high-end drones. Open-source everything. No black boxes.
Three entry-level courses — take them in any order, skip what you already know. Then put it all together in the Advanced Mars Mission.
Every course puts real engineering tools in your hands — not toys, not screens. You keep what you build and take the skills with you.
2007 W. Hedding St, Suite 210, San Jose, CA — minutes from the companies building the future.
Multiple FDM printers running continuously. Design a part in CAD, hold it in your hands 45 minutes later.
Temperature-controlled Hakko irons, magnifying lamps, multimeters, oscilloscopes. Professional tools.
Dedicated space with obstacles, terrain mats, and light sources. Test, crash, debug, improve.
Jordan is a practicing satellite Assembly, Integration & Test engineer. When your kid asks "why does this matter?", the answer comes from someone who has integrated flight hardware — not a camp counselor, not a textbook. A practitioner.
They need a place where someone takes them seriously. Cohorts capped at 12 students. First cohorts opening soon.