The article reflects the views on the development of the engineering area of education and, in particular, its robotic vector. We do not claim to be “the ultimate truth”, but the issue is urgent and it requires extensive coverage and discussion in the community in the context of the development of the educational field of Tech-nology. The question of the methodology and technics on the basis of which robotics courses will be taught, as well as design and construction, is considered. Within the CMSL“Clever” experimental study, an excellent construct and a huge number of author’s methodological guidelines were approved, tested and worked out. Educational designers are used, including during the engineering solutions prototyping. We focus not only on Lego products. There is a “technological boom” in the development of free software and hardware platforms, in particular, this is due to the appearance of the Arduino board in its various forms. It really gave rise to a “breakthrough” wave in technical creative work. Robbo-ScratchDuino, mgBot, and hundreds of others offer individual components and se-rious kits for future designers and engineers. Laser milling machines and other CNC machines, robots, quadrocopters, 3D printers and other devices based on mi-crocontrollers flooded the world. The development of electronic prototypes has been simplified many times at schools and a great amount of startups are being created. The educational effect is possible only with the systematic nature of such decisions and at least a certain uniformity in requirements. The main problems of implementing free software and hardware solutions (free educational robotics) into educational courses are offered.