Courses & guides
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Free · Self-paced
Course
Introduction to AI Tools
A hands-on, plain-language course for people in every field: writing, images, data, research, ethics, and automation, plus how to understand, run, and own these tools instead of only renting them. Eight modules, free to learn from and free to teach from.
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Guide
Mr-Cal: Robot Sensor Calibration
A free interactive guide to calibrating cameras, LiDARs, and IMUs, plain-English explanations with 3D visualizations you can poke at.
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Library
The Resource Library
Games, free tools, datasets, and templates shared by every course here. All free, every link checked.
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Coming later
More courses
Additional course and study material will land here as it's built.
About
Matthew Valancy is a Silicon Valley engineer working in robotics, simulation, perception, and edge AI. These pages collect his teaching material: complete lesson plans, interactive guides, and study resources, all free, all written for people meeting the subject for the first time.
The big idea behind all of it: own the AI, don't just rent it. Capable AI already runs on ordinary phones, tablets, and laptops, and it gets cheaper every year. The people who understand what these systems are made of will decide how they get used at home, at work, and in their communities. These courses are here to make you one of those people.
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Introduction to AI Tools
Eight modules, free to learn from and free to teach from. Begin with what AI actually is, or take the fifteen-minute mini-lesson first.