Published in Geek Culture·Jun 30, 2021How I Built a Self Driving Model CarPart 4 — Taking it to the next level. — Previous posts in this series can be found here. The Bugsta Having finally got my ‘test’ car working it was time to try something a little more exciting. I had an FTX Bugsta which is a fast car — up to 37mph on a 3 cell LiPo! I was not going to…Self Driving Cars5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jun 30, 2021How I Built a Self Driving Model CarPart 3— Trying to Get it to Drive — Previous posts in this series can be found here. Image Preprocessing Using OpenCV I was a bit disappointed — other blogs that I’ve read seemed to be almost plug’n’play. Admittedly I’ve got some more custom code in here but I thought it should be doing better. After some checks on the driving histograms : …Self Driving Cars4 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jun 30, 2021How I Built a Self Driving Model CarPart 2 — The Software and Learning the First Model — Previous posts in this series can be found here. Installing the Software I like to use ssh to log onto the Jetson and then use byobu with tmux_resurrect installed to allow me to run multiple windows within the putty console and to restore from where I left off before I last shut the…Self Driving Cars5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jun 30, 2021How I Built a Self Driving Model CarPart 1 — The Basics — How do you go about building a self driving model car? This series of articles will take the reader through the basics to advanced techniques, including simple object detection based driving behaviours. It took a bit of time and determination but I had fun doing it! Let’s start with my…Self Driving Cars5 min read