Draft for review — not published. Course data: EmptyCore External Courses, finalised 27 Oct 2026.
Courses

All 15 courses

From first circuits to STM32 firmware, IoT systems, PCBs and robots. Tap any course for what you'll build, prerequisites and fees. Courses run in launch phases — Phase 1 opens first.

Two fee options for every course: course only, or with take-home kit (handed over in session 1 and yours to keep). Fees for individuals include 18% GST. Exactly two electronics courses: EC-01 Basic and EC-04 Advanced.

Phase 1

First batches — start here
EC-01 Foundation

Basic Electronics — Hands-On Foundations

48 h · Age 12+ (Class 7 and above) · Course only ₹10,500 · With kit ₹12,100

How circuits really work — from Ohm's law to transistors, op-amps, 555 timers and soldering — at safe low voltages.

WhoSchool students Class 7–12, diploma/ITI, 1st-year engineering, hobbyists and career-switchers
PrerequisiteNone. Comfortable with Class 8 maths.
Format24 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 12 weeks
Contact time48 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Adjustable LM317 bench power supply (1.25 to about 9 V)
  • LDR automatic night lamp
  • Dark-detector comparator
  • Logic-gate alarm / half adder
  • 555 flasher soldered on perfboard

What you will learn

  • Voltage, current, resistance and power with a multimeter
  • Reading schematics and breadboarding
  • Diodes, rectifiers and regulated power supplies
  • Transistor and MOSFET switches, relays and motors
  • Op-amp comparator and buffer, logic gates, 555 timer
  • Safe soldering and reading datasheets
Course only₹10,500
With take-home kit₹12,100
Kit premium₹1,600

Mains/AC is theory and trainer demo only — students work at 12 V or below.

Under-14s solder only under direct supervision (goggles, fume extraction, lead-free solder).

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-02 Foundation (kids & teens)

Arduino & Robotics for Beginners — Junior 10–12 / Senior 13–15

39 h · Age 10–12 (Junior) or 13–15 (Senior) · Course only ₹11,500 · With kit ₹13,600

From a blinking LED to a moving robot — kids build, code and present a finished project.

WhoChildren and young teens — separate Junior and Senior batches, same kit
PrerequisiteNone for ages 10–11. Ages 12–15: EC-01 Basic Electronics first is strongly recommended (not mandatory).
Format26 sessions × 1.5 h · 2 per week · 13 weeks
Contact time39 hours · batch 8–10

What you will build

  • Traffic-light controller
  • Smart night lamp
  • Distance alarm
  • Line-follower or obstacle-avoider robot
  • Own-idea gadget

What you will learn

  • Simple Arduino programs
  • Sensors, motors and how robots decide
  • Building a motor chassis
  • Showing and explaining a project
Course only₹11,500
With take-home kit₹13,600
Kit premium₹2,100

Batch capped at 10, with one trainer and one assistant.

Sessions 1–2 are an electronics warm-up for children without EC-01.

A parent of Junior students attends session 1.

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-03 Foundation (bridge)

Python & Linux for Hardware — Bridge course

24 h · Age 15+ · Course only ₹6,000 · With kit ₹7,600

The Linux shell and Python you actually need to talk to hardware — in six weeks.

WhoStudents heading to Raspberry Pi (EC-10) and future ROS 2 work
PrerequisiteBasic computer use. No programming needed.
Format12 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 6 weeks
Contact time24 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Sensor logger (Pico 2 W + BMP280) streaming to a Python plot and CSV

What you will learn

  • Linux command line essentials
  • Python basics for hardware
  • Reading sensors and logging data
  • Plotting and saving results
Course only₹6,000
With take-home kit₹7,600
Kit premium₹1,600

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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Phase 2

Next step after Phase 1
EC-04 Intermediate

Advanced Electronics — Analysis, Analog Design & Power

52 h · Age 15+ (Class 10 and above) · Course only ₹14,000 · With kit ₹17,200

The second of our two electronics courses: circuit analysis, simulation, analog design, signal conditioning and power.

WhoDiploma and engineering students, hobbyists
PrerequisiteEC-01 Basic Electronics (or a practical entry test). Class 10 algebra.
Format26 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 13 weeks
Contact time52 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Audio chain: mic preamp → active filter → LM386
  • Sensor-to-0–5 V signal conditioner
  • R-2R DAC
  • 555-PWM motor controller
  • Discrete boost converter
  • Capstone on perfboard

What you will learn

  • Circuit analysis and theorems
  • Simulation with Falstad and ngspice
  • Oscilloscope and function generator
  • BJT amplifier and op-amp circuits, active filters
  • ADC/DAC, PWM and motor drivers
  • Noise, grounding, decoupling and troubleshooting
Course only₹14,000
With take-home kit₹17,200
Kit premium₹3,200

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-05 Intermediate

Arduino Advanced — Registers, Interrupts, PID & Data Logging

56 h · Age 14+ · Course only ₹17,000 · With kit ₹22,700

Arduino the professional way: registers, interrupts, non-blocking code, PID control and wireless links.

WhoTeens, diploma and engineering students, makers
PrerequisiteEC-02 (Senior), or EC-01 plus basic programming (session 1 is an Arduino quick-start). EC-04 recommended.
Format28 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 14 weeks
Contact time56 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • PID temperature controller
  • Homing linear stage
  • RTC / SD-card data logger
  • Two-board radio link
  • Capstone project

What you will learn

  • Registers, timers and interrupts
  • Non-blocking multi-task code
  • PID control from first principles
  • Data logging and wireless links
  • Debugging multi-module systems
Course only₹17,000
With take-home kit₹22,700
Kit premium₹5,700

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-06 Intermediate–Advanced

IoT Systems Engineering with ESP32

72 h · Age 16+ · Course only ₹18,500 · With kit ₹22,400

Build a secure, self-hosted IoT system end to end — nodes, broker, database, dashboards and alerts.

WhoDiploma and engineering students, makers, professionals
PrerequisiteEC-05 or solid Arduino C/C++. Basic networking helpful.
Format36 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 18 weeks
Contact time72 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Secure multi-node sensor network: ESP32 + ESP32-C3 → Mosquitto (TLS) → InfluxDB / Grafana + Home Assistant, with alerts

What you will learn

  • ESP32 Wi-Fi and BLE
  • MQTT and self-hosted brokers with TLS
  • Time-series data and dashboards
  • Alerts, IoT security and updates
Course only₹18,500
With take-home kit₹22,400
Kit premium₹3,900

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-07 Foundation–Intermediate

3D Design & Printing for Makers

56 h · Age 13+ · Course only ₹13,500 · With kit ₹16,100

Turn an idea into a part you can hold: CAD, design for printing, and enclosures for your electronics.

WhoTeens, students, makers and founders
PrerequisiteNone. Basic computer use.
Format28 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 14 weeks
Contact time56 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Tolerance gauge
  • Snap-fit box
  • Enclosure with threaded inserts
  • Your own product capstone

What you will learn

  • CAD fundamentals
  • Design for 3D printing and tolerances
  • Materials and print troubleshooting
  • Enclosures for boards and modules
Course only₹13,500
With take-home kit₹16,100
Kit premium₹2,600

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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Phase 3

Specialisation
EC-08 Intermediate

Mechanics & Mechanisms for Robotics

56 h · Age 15+ · Course only ₹14,500 · With kit ₹19,200

The other half of robotics: gears, torque, belts, linkages and arms — learned with your hands.

WhoClass 11–12, diploma/ITI and engineering students
PrerequisiteClass 10 maths/physics. EC-02 or EC-05 helpful for the control sessions.
Format28 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 14 weeks
Contact time56 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Gear-train speed reducer
  • Belt drive
  • 4-DOF arm pick-and-place
  • Mechanism capstone

What you will learn

  • Forces, torque, gears and bearings
  • Choosing motors for a load
  • Linkages and mechanisms
  • Basic fabrication
Course only₹14,500
With take-home kit₹19,200
Kit premium₹4,700

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-09 Intermediate

PCB Design (KiCad) & Fabrication

56 h · Age 16+ · Course only ₹14,500 · With kit ₹17,400

Design, order, assemble and test your own circuit board — fabricated in India.

WhoElectronics and IoT students, founders, engineers
PrerequisiteEC-01 (or equivalent) and comfortable through-hole soldering. EC-04 recommended.
Format28 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 14 weeks
Contact time56 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Group practice board (through-hole + 0603 / SOIC / SOT-23)
  • Your own 2-layer capstone board, fabricated in India

What you will learn

  • Schematic capture and layout in KiCad
  • Manufacturing files and ordering
  • Hand-soldering SMD parts
  • Testing and documenting a design
Course only₹14,500
With take-home kit₹17,400
Kit premium₹2,900

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-10 Intermediate–Advanced

Raspberry Pi & Embedded Linux

56 h · Age 16+ · Course only ₹16,500 · With kit ₹21,800

Embedded Linux on a Raspberry Pi: GPIO, camera, web dashboards and services that start on boot.

WhoStudents and makers moving into Linux-based hardware
PrerequisiteEC-03 Python & Linux for Hardware (or a short entry test). EC-05 recommended.
Format28 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 14 weeks
Contact time56 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Web-controlled camera robot on Raspberry Pi 4
  • Flask dashboard
  • systemd service

What you will learn

  • Embedded Linux on the Pi
  • GPIO and sensor interfacing in Python
  • Camera and simple vision
  • Web apps and services
Course only₹16,500
With take-home kit₹21,800
Kit premium₹5,300

Optional own-Pi add-on (Raspberry Pi 4, 4 GB): ₹10,700.

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-11 Advanced

STM32 Foundations — Bare-metal & HAL

44 h · Age 17+ · Course only ₹17,500 · With kit ₹24,100

Move from Arduino to real firmware on an ARM Cortex-M — registers first, then HAL.

WhoCollege students and working engineers
PrerequisiteC programming (pointers, structs) and EC-05 or equivalent microcontroller experience. EC-04 recommended.
Format22 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 11 weeks
Contact time44 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Sensor + TFT + encoder-motor controller, written both bare-metal and with HAL

What you will learn

  • ARM Cortex-M and embedded C
  • GPIO, clocks, interrupts and timers
  • UART, I²C and SPI
  • Professional toolchain and debugging
Course only₹17,500
With take-home kit₹24,100
Kit premium₹6,600

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-12 Advanced

STM32 Industrial — CAN, RS-485/Modbus, Low Power & Board Bring-up

36 h · Age 17+ · Course only ₹12,000 · With kit ₹14,800

Industrial communication, low-power design and bringing up a bare board.

WhoEC-11 graduates — college and working engineers
PrerequisiteEC-11 (you keep using the NUCLEO-G474RE from EC-11). Starts the week after EC-11 ends.
Format18 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 9 weeks
Contact time36 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Two-node CAN + Modbus RTU industrial network
  • Low-power 18650 battery node
  • Bring-up report for a bare board

What you will learn

  • CAN and RS-485 / Modbus RTU
  • Low-power modes
  • Board bring-up and test
  • Industrial debugging habits
Course only₹12,000
With take-home kit₹14,800
Kit premium₹2,800

Offered only to students who own the NUCLEO-G474RE from EC-11; the kit is an add-on.

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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Phase 4

Advanced & capstone
EC-13 Advanced

RTOS & Embedded Firmware Architecture — FreeRTOS / Zephyr

48 h · Age 17+ · Course only ₹18,500 · With kit ₹25,100

Multi-task firmware with queues, semaphores and timing analysis — the skill embedded employers ask for.

WhoSTM32 graduates and embedded engineers
PrerequisiteEC-11 (or strong STM32 HAL experience).
Format24 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 12 weeks
Contact time48 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Multi-task controller on FreeRTOS
  • Sensor app ported to Zephyr

What you will learn

  • Tasks, queues and semaphores
  • Firmware architecture
  • Timing and CPU-load analysis
  • FreeRTOS and Zephyr
Course only₹18,500
With take-home kit₹25,100
Kit premium₹6,600

Reuses the EC-11 kit — the “with kit” price is for students coming from outside EC-11.

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-14 Advanced

Mobile Robotics & Manipulation

72 h · Age 16+ (17+ recommended) · Course only ₹26,000 · With kit ₹34,500

Bring electronics and mechanics together in a complete robot with odometry, behaviours and an arm.

WhoStudents who have done Arduino Advanced and Mechanics
PrerequisiteEC-05 and EC-08 (or equivalent). EC-04 recommended.
Format36 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 18 weeks
Contact time72 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Encoder-odometry robot with line-follow, wall-follow and obstacle behaviours
  • Pick-and-place arm

What you will learn

  • Motor drivers, encoders and power
  • PID speed and heading control
  • Kinematics and odometry
  • Robot arms
Course only₹26,000
With take-home kit₹34,500
Kit premium₹8,500

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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EC-15 Capstone

Product Development Capstone

48 h · Age 17+ · Course only ₹16,000 · With kit ₹18,000

In a team, take a product from idea to a working prototype with two PCB spins, an enclosure and a pitch.

WhoProduct Maker track graduates and founders, in teams
PrerequisiteEC-09 and EC-07 (or portfolio review). EC-04 recommended.
Format24 sessions × 2 h · 2 per week · 12 weeks (+10 h open lab per team)
Contact time48 hours · batch 8–12

What you will build

  • Team product with two PCB spins
  • 3D-printed enclosure
  • Documentation and cost sheet
  • Pitch

What you will learn

  • Requirements and architecture
  • Breadboard to PCB iterations
  • Testing and reliability
  • Pitching a working prototype
Course only₹16,000
With take-home kit₹18,000
Kit premium₹2,000

Fees include 18% GST. Certificate: EmptyCore Certificate of Completion (80%+ attendance and capstone pass; “with Distinction” at 85%+).

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Coming soon

Not open for enrolment
EC-16 Coming soon

ROS 2 Robotics — Jazzy, Nav2

Indicative: age 17+, after EC-03 + EC-14, about 36 × 2 h. ROS 2 nodes, launch files, TF2, URDF, Gazebo, SLAM and Nav2 on a Raspberry Pi robot.

Not open for enrolment. No fees or dates yet — ask to be notified.

EC-17 Coming soon

Drone Engineering

Indicative: age 18+ for outdoor flying, about 28 × 2 h. Frames, motors/ESCs, LiPo safety, flight controllers, PID tuning, simulation first. Launches only after DGCA Drone Rules 2021 compliance is in place.

Not open for enrolment. No fees or dates yet — ask to be notified.

Fee summary

CodeCourseAgeHoursCourse onlyWith kit
EC-01Basic Electronics12+ (Class 7 and above)48 h₹10,500₹12,100
EC-02Arduino & Robotics for Beginners10–12 (Junior) or 13–15 (Senior)39 h₹11,500₹13,600
EC-03Python & Linux for Hardware15+24 h₹6,000₹7,600
EC-04Advanced Electronics15+ (Class 10 and above)52 h₹14,000₹17,200
EC-05Arduino Advanced14+56 h₹17,000₹22,700
EC-06IoT Systems Engineering with ESP3216+72 h₹18,500₹22,400
EC-073D Design & Printing for Makers13+56 h₹13,500₹16,100
EC-08Mechanics & Mechanisms for Robotics15+56 h₹14,500₹19,200
EC-09PCB Design (KiCad) & Fabrication16+56 h₹14,500₹17,400
EC-10Raspberry Pi & Embedded Linux16+56 h₹16,500₹21,800
EC-11STM32 Foundations17+44 h₹17,500₹24,100
EC-12STM32 Industrial17+36 h₹12,000₹14,800
EC-13RTOS & Embedded Firmware Architecture17+48 h₹18,500₹25,100
EC-14Mobile Robotics & Manipulation16+ (17+ recommended)72 h₹26,000₹34,500
EC-15Product Development Capstone17+48 h₹16,000₹18,000

Payment options

  • ₹1,000 registration holds your seat and is adjusted against the fee.
  • Fees above ₹12,000 can be paid 50% at enrolment and 50% by the middle session (kit premium in the first instalment).
  • Fees for individuals include 18% GST. College / corporate quotes are ex-GST.

Discounts (one per enrolment)

  • Early bird 10% — paid 15+ days before start
  • Returning student 10%
  • Sibling 10%
  • Referral credit — ₹1,000 or 10% of tuition, whichever is lower
  • Discounts apply to tuition only; kit premiums are never discounted.

Batches & programs

  • 8–12 learners per batch (EC-02: up to 10, with an assistant)
  • 2 sessions a week — weekday evenings or weekend mornings
  • One scholarship seat per batch at 50% tuition (when the batch has 10 paying students)
  • College and corporate programs on request (25+ learners)

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