AVIRobotics
Menu

Projects & workshops

Learn it Friday. Build it in four weeks.

Nobody needs to know how to code, wire or CAD before joining. Workshops teach the basics every week, and Blank Check Projects put them to work on something real, with a team.

Workshops

Every Friday night.

Fridays, 5:30 to 7:30 PM in EE 389, Fresno State. After announcements, members split into tracks and spend about 90 minutes learning by doing, taught by members who learned it the same way.

Come to a meeting
  • Members working through a programming workshop

    Programming and electronics

    A beginner track for your first lines of code and your first circuit, and an advanced track for microcontrollers, sensors and the code that runs our robots.

  • A design-for-manufacturing workshop in the computer lab, fall 2026

    CAD and design for manufacturing

    From your first sketch in CAD to designing parts that can actually be printed, cut, bent and assembled: the step between a model on screen and a part in your hand.

  • Members working through a programming session at a spring 2026 build day

    Build nights

    Hands on the hardware: 3D printing, soldering, wiring and testing, side by side with the teams building competition robots.

Blank Check Projects

Blank check. (Because we're broke.)

Every fall, new members split into small teams and get four weeks to design and build a themed, interactive display that combines mechanical motion, embedded electronics, programming and promotion.

  1. Week 1 Get the theme and your kit, meet your technical lead, write your own timeline.
  2. Weeks 2–3 Design, print, wire and code. Send a progress summary to your technical lead every week.
  3. Week 4 Finish it, then present the display and hand in a short documentation report.
Length
Four weeks
Brief
A themed, interactive display
Must combine
Mechanical motion, embedded electronics, programming, promotion
Each team
Writes its own timeline and has a technical lead
At the end
A presentation and a documentation report
A Blank Check Project kit box
Members helping each other wire a Blank Check Project
Introducing Blank Check Projects to the club, October 2026
Members building circuits at a Blank Check Project session
A Blank Check Project team at work
New members wiring their first circuits at a fall 2026 build workshop
Members in costume at the Phantom Bash meeting, October 2026
Members working through a programming workshop
A Blank Check Project kit box
Members on laptops working on their Blank Check Projects
A circuit board design workshop, with the layout projected on the wall
Going over PCB and circuit board safety at a fall 2026 workshop
A member writing code on a laptop during a workshop
A member helping another with a workshop exercise in the computer lab
Walking the club through ROSIE's CAD model at an October 2026 meeting
The costume contest at the Phantom Bash meeting, October 2026
A design-for-manufacturing workshop in the computer lab, fall 2026

So far

Two rounds.

  • Oct 10 – Nov 7, 2025

    Round one

    AVI's first semester and its first Blank Check Project: new members in small teams, four weeks, one themed display each.

  • Oct 16 – Nov 13, 2026

    Round two

    A technical lead for every group and a kit for each team, run alongside the Friday workshops.

Want in?

Show up on a Friday.

No experience needed and every major is welcome. Come to a meeting, try a workshop, and join a Blank Check team in the fall.

Join the club About AVI