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An open-source AI racing car project

Everything you need to build your own self driving platform for small scale cars with RaspberryPi, Python and deep learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow

How to get involved:
  •        • Join us on the Donkeycar Discord channel or Discourse forum
  •        • Build a Donkeycar using RaspberryPi and neural networks
  •        • Attend our San Francisco Bay Area race/hack days
  •        • Join one of the dozens of other Meetup groups near you
  •        • Buy a ready-to-run robocar

Just because these cars are small and inexpensive doesn’t mean that you can’t run real autonomous car software on them. Like their big brothers, they run ML/CV software, from PyTorch and TensorFlow to OpenCV. To keep costs down, they split their computational tasks between a Raspberry Pi onboard for real-time processing and cloud processing for offline training.
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  • Show your RaspberryPi IP address on startup with an OLED 12/29/2021
  • Teardown of Naobot AI robot 05/14/2021
  • Using ArduRover with an RTK GPS 01/18/2021
  • An improved version of the Intel OpenBot 12/14/2020
  • First impressions of Tinkergen MARK robocar 11/15/2020
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  • Getting started with Robocars 10/31/2020
  • The difference between proper RC cars and toys (when you’re turning them into robots) 06/14/2020
  • Review of the new Nivida Jetson NX for robocars 06/01/2020
  • Review of the new HuskyLens AI camera as a robocar brain 05/10/2020
  • Arduino Serial Plotter: The Missing Manual 05/04/2020
  • Comparing Sonar and Lidar Arrays 05/01/2020
  • Lessons learned making a Lidar-based maze rover 03/19/2020
  • Rules and guidelines for the DIY Robocars outdoors races 03/01/2020
  • How to add an encoder to the Donkeycar chassis 01/31/2020
  • Maze navigation with the Realsense 435 depth sensor camera 01/07/2020
  • Using the Intel Realsense T265 and the Jetson Nano for a robocar 12/03/2019
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  • First impressions of the new Zumi robot car 08/11/2019
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