Archived Posts

Configuring a Sixaxis controller

...and first drive in teleop mode!

Posted on August 22, 2019

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... [Read More]

Assembling the (Donkey) car

Building the first prototype

Posted on July 20, 2019

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... [Read More]

First post - Planning the next project

Building a self-driving RC car (Donkey Car)

Posted on June 16, 2019

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... [Read More]