After pausing this project for almost half a year (I was busy graduating and finding a job), the pandemic has me stuck at home with so much extra time on my hands. Since March, at least 10 days before the Netherlands went into Lockdown, I decided to restart this project,...
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Configuring a Sixaxis controller
...and first drive in teleop mode!
After all the hardware changes from last time, this is how the car looks: Assembled Donkey Car The car is now ready to drive. First, I decided to configure the game controller and try to read data off it from the Raspberry Pi. Now, the recommended controller in the documentation...
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Assembling the (Donkey) car
Building the first prototype
The parts have arrived! At least, most of them. Most surprisingly, the car from Hong Kong arrived a day before the servo driver which I ordered from Amazon Germany. Once again, I used the Donkeycar documentation to build the car. However, I made a few tweaks… Partially assembled Donkey Car...
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First post - Planning the next project
Building a self-driving RC car (Donkey Car)
First post! This is very exciting. Over the last couple of weeks, and especially with the long weekends and bridging holidays in the Netherlands, I have been thinking of getting acquainted with AI/Machine Learning/Deep Learning techniques for autonomous cars and robots. What better way to do this than using an...
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