Carlota Suárez

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About

I'm a student and I learn by building: robots I design, 3D print and put together myself.

Projects

My early days with technology

2010–2015

Technology and robotics have fascinated me since I was very little. My first games were on the iPad, in apps my dad made, and I always wanted to try any new gadget that came into the house: tablets, laptops or a pair of smart glasses.

As a toddler on the sofa, looking at a tablet

As a toddler, tapping an animal game on a tablet on the sofa

Playing with a tablet in the dark, lit by the screen

My hands tapping a farm game on the tablet

Wearing the smart glasses and looking at the display

Robotis Dream Lvl 1

2015

Robotis Dream Level 1 is a beginner educational robotics kit: following the manual, you build robots and mechanisms from pieces, gears and a small motor. I built a cat, a windmill and a fan that actually spun. I had a great time building them, sometimes with my sister and sometimes on my own.

See the kit

The open Robotis Dream Level 1 kit box with its parts

Making a peace sign next to my first build, a yellow cat

Smiling with the yellow brick cat on my finger

Putting kit parts together at the table with my sister

With the windmill I built, turning the crank

Making a peace sign next to a motorised fan

The motorised fan running on top of the kit manual

Robotis Dream Lvl 2

2015

After finishing Level 1 I was really eager to build more, so I was overjoyed when my dad gave me Level 2. This kit has more pieces and more complex motorised models: I built a cow, a duck, a kangaroo, a ladybird and even a car with wheels.

See the kit

Finger to my lips next to a green robot with a spinning propeller

Pointing at a white robot I built with black, blue and yellow pieces

A brick robot cow next to its instructions in the manual

Playing with the robot cow on top of the Robotis Dream kit box

Making a peace sign behind an orange robot ladybird

A yellow robot duck in front of the Robotis box

A green robot car with wheels and spinning arms

Robotis Darwin Mini

2017

Robotis Darwin Mini is a small humanoid robot with a servomotor in every joint: it can walk and dance, and you control it from your phone. My dad bought it to try out at the office, and when he brought it home I took it apart and rebuilt the whole thing on my own, piece by piece.

See the robot

The first arm built with the kit servomotors

Arms, legs and the body base before putting them together

The head and torso built next to the other parts

The finished Darwin Mini standing on the table

BattleBots Project

2025–2026

As my end-of-year project in the first year of Bachillerato (sixth form), I teamed up with a group from my class to build a robot that would then battle the rest of the robots in our year. We built it from scratch, with servomotors and parts we designed and 3D printed ourselves, and after all our hard work we finished in 2nd place.

Inside the 3D-printed robot: board, motor driver, motors and battery

Work in progress

SO-ARM101 Pro - Robotic Arm

In progress

An open-source robotic arm designed for Hugging Face's LeRobot: a “leader” arm you move by hand and a “follower” arm that copies your movements, to teach the robot tasks by imitation. I'm just getting started with it.

See the arm