Philippines Robotics Club
Ano ang halaga ng isang robotWhat a robot actually costs
Lahat ng parte, may presyo. Walang itinatago. Every part, with what it costs. If you are thinking of helping, this is the whole list — you can buy one thing on it and know exactly where it went.
Mga presyo: Lazada / Shopee Philippines, nakalista 18 Okt 2026
$1 ≈ ₱64 29 Okt 2026
Totoong presyo sa Lazada / Shopee · real listed prices
These are real listed prices from Philippine sellers, checked in October 2026. Prices move a little month to month, so treat them as close rather than exact — but they are what we actually expect to pay, not rounded-up guesses. Where something has not been priced yet, it says so instead of being invented.
Bawat bata, para sa mga aralin · each child, for the lessons
Aralin 1–8 happen on a breadboard, before any robot exists
Starter electronics kit
Breadboard, jumper wires, LEDs, resistors, push buttons, 1N4007 diodes, battery holder
This is every lesson from 1 to 8 — the loop, the resistor, the switch,
the diode. One kit per child, or one between two. Reusable term after term.
⬜ Not yet priced for class quantities on Lazada/Shopee. to be costed—
⬜ Not yet priced for class quantities on Lazada/Shopee. to be costed—
Multimeter
The tool from Aralin 4 — so they can check a claim instead of believing it
Cheap ones are a couple of dollars locally. One each beats one shared:
a shared meter means one child measuring and five watching.
⚠️ Buy spare fuses. Someone will put it across a battery in amps mode. ≈$2–4≈₱130–250
⚠️ Buy spare fuses. Someone will put it across a battery in amps mode. ≈$2–4≈₱130–250
Isang robot · one robot
What one child needs to have a bot of their own
ESP32 board
The brain. Classic WROOM — it has the widest gamepad support
This is the board in Aralin 6. One per bot.
$4–6₱250–400Bluetooth gamepad
PS4-style or 8BitDo — pairs straight to the bot, no phone needed
The single most expensive item, and the one that survives everything.
One per bot, reusable term after term.
$13–23₱800–1,500
N20 gear motors × 2
The drive motors, 6V, 300–600 RPM
⚠️ The parts that break most. Spares are not optional.
$5–8₱300–500
Motor driver
DRV8833 or TB6612FNG — drives both wheels
This is the H-bridge from Aralin 11, as an actual chip.
$1.25–2.50₱80–150
2S LiPo battery, 7.4V 300mAh
The power. One or two per bot
FPV-drone sellers only, and only ones with good reviews. Charged
by an adult, stored in a safe bag.
$4–6₱250–400 ea
Buck converter
Steps 7.4V down to the 5V the ESP32 wants
$0.80–1.60₱50–100
Power switch / removable link
Kills the whole bot. Comes out before anyone picks it up
Safety kit, not a convenience.
$0.50–1.25₱30–80
Wire, connectors, screws
Silicone wire, M2 and M3 screws
≈$1.60≈₱100
Isang robot na walang spinner
One bot without a spinning weapon — gamepad included
$31–55₱2,000–3,500
Kung may spinner · if it has a spinning weapon
Added on top, and only fitted at the event
Weapon motor
A small brushless drone motor, 1104 or 1306
$5–9₱300–600
Weapon ESC, 12A
Drives the weapon motor, with a kill in the code
Weapons only spin up inside the closed box.
$4–6₱250–400
Isang robot na may spinner
One bot with a spinning weapon, everything in
$39–70₱2,500–4,500
Gamit ng lahat · shared by everyone
Bought once, used by every child, every term
LiPo balance charger
Charges the batteries properly. Adult-supervised, always
The most important safety purchase on this page.
$23–47₱1,500–3,000
LiPo safe bags / metal box
For charging and storing batteries in Philippine heat
$3–8₱200–500
Soldering iron and solder
For the joins that have to survive being hit
$13–31₱800–2,000
Spares box
Extra N20 motors, ESCs, ESP32s, connectors
Fights break things. A term without spares is a term of
children watching instead of driving.
$23+₱1,500+
Safety glasses
Everyone at the battle box wears them
Donated by Spits Eyewear — no cost to the club.
—donated
Bawat termino · every term
The quiet recurring costs that get absorbed silently
Paper and toner
Every child gets the whole course as a booklet on day one
Two-up on A5, double-sided, cut and stapled — 70 sheets
covers twenty children for the whole course. See the
worksheets page.
$25per term
Filament
PLA and PETG for chassis, TPU for tyres and armour
Not costed yet — depends on how much gets destroyed, which
we will only know after the first term.
to be costed—
Arena materials
4.5 mm solid polycarbonate and fixings for the battle box
Built once. Not yet priced in the Philippines.
to be costed—
A second printer
Before the current one wears out
Four children's schoolwork plus a twenty-child course is a lot
of hours on one machine.
to be costed—
Ang susunod · the next branch
Nine of the fourteen modules already serve both — a drone is five extra, not a second course
Starter drone parts
Coreless motors, frame, off-the-shelf flight controller, battery
The drone branch is mapped and deliberately parked: nothing gets
sourced for it until the robot course has been run with real children, because
what we learn doing that will change how it is written.
⬜ Not costed yet — and deliberately so, rather than guessed at here. not yet sourced—
⬜ Not costed yet — and deliberately so, rather than guessed at here. not yet sourced—
Kung may sobra
Anumang hindi pa nagagamit ay para sa mga parte sa susunod na termino.
Anything beyond the items listed here goes straight to next term's
parts. Nothing is held back, and nothing goes anywhere that is not on this page.
Saan napunta ang binili mo
Isinusulat namin kung aling bata ang nakatanggap ng bawat parte.
We write down which child received each part — not just what was
bought. If you buy a motor driver, you will be able to see the bot it went into and the
kid driving it. That is the whole point of listing it this way.