Cinematic illustration of an autonomous underwater robot in a workshop, representing a personal series about learning robotics, teaching others, and building Bangladesh’s first competition autonomous underwater vehicle.

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The Years I Built Robots

A personal series about how robotics took me from a free workshop to teaching, leadership, international competitions, and eventually software engineering.

A tidy robotics workspace with an Arduino, breadboard, sensors, wires, a small tracked robot, and a notebook illustrating the journey from learning and experimentation to building and teaching robotics.

Part 1

The Free Workshop That Started Everything

How a free workshop gave me access to robotics, introduced me to Hirok, and led me from learning Arduino to teaching others.

A friendly student-built robot with tank-style tracks waves at a university technology exhibition, with a campus, engineering projects, and travel items in the background.

Part 2

The Robot That Took Me to India

How BRAC University’s WALL-E robot took me from a Dhaka lab to Techkriti at IIT Kanpur, through a rushed visa and an unexpected journey.

Students learn hands-on robotics with Arduino boards, sensors, motors, and practice tracks during a workshop at BRAC University.

Part 3

Learning Robotics by Teaching It

How the Robotics Club of BRAC University made learning robotics affordable, practical, and fun by removing barriers for curious students.

A student moves between graphic design, event planning, club logistics, recruitment software, and robotics work inside the Robotics Club of BRAC University.

Part 4

Life Beyond the Robots at ROBU

How moving through Creative, Events, Logistics, HR, and R&D taught me how the Robotics Club of BRAC University actually worked.

Part 5

The Fear of Losing

How failures at robotics competitions in MIST and North South University made me fear losing in public, until my students pushed me back.

Part 6

One Last Local Competition

How our BRAC University robotics teams built two line followers, returned to DUET, and finally won the local competition we had avoided.

Students work late at night in a rooftop satellite ground station, with a motorized antenna tracking a CubeSat above the city.

Part 7

Three Months Inside a Satellite Ground Station

Three months around BRAC University’s BRAC Onnesha satellite ground station, learning RF, helping where I could, and sleeping in the lab.