Damn it... Just before the pandemic I had started piling up hardware to start building something similar(I was intending to use a raspberry pi). And since I couldn't go and look for parts in person(I'm not that crafty with my hands so I genuinely need to see in person the part in order to be able to tell if it's going to work) so I postponed it. And today I see this... Feeling kind of sucks, even though I can't really explain why.
Amazon has been selling it's self-driving AWS Deep Racer car[1] and has been promoting race tournaments for a while now.<p>Has anyone got that? Is it worth the price to test self-driving algorithms in the hopes of making it to the full sized vehicle one day or is it best we make our own self-driving toy card with Nvidia Jetson?<p>[1]<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/</a>
They were trying very hard to use Tensorflow. It's amusing that their first pre-training operation failed because they trained on straight roads. Direct camera to steering is possible but not really the best approach.<p>Micromouse competition, 2019.[1] The first run, it's learning the maze. The second run is a speed run.<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/sKFIBQ64_zs" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/sKFIBQ64_zs</a>
Wonderful. Are there any other "robotics" projects which use android phones instead of rasberry-pi or microcontrollers?<p>Imagine in future there are generic robots. Rather than trusting its custom AI/processing, I can connect my phone to the robot and my phone gets hardware/robotic extension and is personalised for me.<p>Its like ironman suit for my phone :)
does anyone how the android phone is interfacing with the rest of the car hardware ?<p>i did not know that android phones could do realtime i/o like this. Is this the "Android Things" or "Android Accessory Protocol" ?
One thing I have always failed to understand about self-driving tech -- what's the motivation for each car to do its own self-driving computation in busy metropolitan areas?<p>Are there technologies that integrate with some kind of <i>existing</i> infrastructure like beacons, etc. that would just <i>tell</i> the car where the streets are? If not, why not?
There is a definite resemblance to Duckietown[1], a robotics class/competition done developed at MIT.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.duckietown.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.duckietown.org/</a>
Can this be scaled into building many small cities for self-driving cars training? Could it be used for real scale? Kind of like GTA V is used for training.