Meetup Groups
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United States
California
San Francisco Bay Area:
- DIY Robocars HQ (mostly Oakland/East Bay)
- DeepRacing (Menlo Park)
- Autonomous Vehicle Enthusiasts
- Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source
- Connected Car SF and Connected Car SV
- Car Hax
- SAE International (innovations in mobility)
- Bay Area AI
San Diego: SD Robotics Club
Los Angeles: LA DIY Robocars
Colorado:
Florida:
Georgia:
Illinois:
Iowa:
Massachusetts
Michigan:
Minnesota:
- Minneapolis autonomous car meetup
- AI Racing League
Nebraska:
New York:
North Carolina:
Ohio
- Columbus: AutonomyHub
Pennsylvania
- Emlenton: Donkeycar Meetup
Texas:
- Austin DIY Robocars ATX
Utah:
- Salt Lake City DIY Robocars SLC
Washington DC:
Canada
- Calgary DIY Robocars
- Montreal DIY Robocars
- Halton (Ontario) DIY Robocars
- Ottawa Autonomous Vehicles Meetup
Latin America
Uruguay
Montevideo
Asia
China
Beijing
Guiyang
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Hong Kong
India
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Taiwan
Australia
Canberra
Brisbane
Melbourne
Perth
Sydney
Europe
Belgium
Finland
France
Germany
- Berlin autonomous driving and robots
- Berlin self driving car and autonomous mobility
- Stuttgart DIY Robocars group
- Dortmund race group
Ireland:
Italy
The Netherlands
Spain
UK
DAVG (Detroit Autonomous Vehicle Group) would love to be a part of this list and the global community! We recently started working toward organizing a competition event in the Metro Detroit area, and in our research came across DIYRobocars competition in Berkeley, California. We think Metro Detroit is a critical location for development of new technologies and want to do whatever we can to help make the world a better/safer place. With that said, we strongly believe being part of the DIYRobocars global community is a critical step to all of ours success.
We would love any feedback/suggestions!
-DAVG
Australia joins the movement!
We ran a DIYRobocars event this week in Melbourne, working on a MiniTrooper based self racer. The next one is in September:
http://meetu.ps/e/DbWyH/sJZKd/a
If you’re in Melbourne and you’re interested in building your own, leave a comment on the meetup and we’ll invite you to the local Slack group.
Starting a build guide too:
https://medium.com/australian-robotics-society/build-your-own-self-racing-car-4204b30dc4d0
We’re planning our first race day in October, with a track and at least two working racers!
Please add Autonomy Hub, Columbus, Ohio. Thanks Chris and team.
Think Autonomy,
Loren
Hi Chris and team,
Could you please add our makerlab in Melbourne, Australia, where we are running DIYRobocar events?
https://www.meetup.com/Make-Create/
We’re looking forward to being part of the community!
Cameron Leeson
http://www.make-create.org
Cameron: Thanks – added!
Awesome, thanks zlite!
Loren: Added!
hi ZLite / Chris, can you please add …
* Melbourne Autonomous Vehicle meet-up (https://www.meetup.com/Autonomous-Vehicles) held at the Connected Community HackerSpace (http://hackmelbourne.org) in Melbourne, Australia.
We hold regular build workshops … and hosted our first track last weekend in conjunction with the ARS and Make/Create.
Thanks for inspiring an extraordinary activity that helps encourage newcomers into the important intersection between Machine Learning and Robotics.
cheers Andy Gelme
Hi,
I want to introduce you the Madrid DIYRobocars Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/DIYRobocars-Spain/
The first track will be held this December in Madrid, and we already have several teams from different regions in Spain working on their vehicles.
Cheers!
Thanks! Updated
Hi Chris and team,
I’m starting DIY Robocars HK in Hong Kong. Seems it’s the first one in Asia. 🙂
http://diyrobocars.hk
I’ll be hosting some info sessions about DIY Robocars first and demo the Donkey Car to get more people to join.
Cheers!
Dennis
Awesome! Updated
Can you add Japan please? You have a 2nd in Asia!
https://www.meetup.com/DIY-Robocars-Japan
Hello team,
Here’s the link to DIY Robocars France
https://www.meetup.com/DIY-Robocars-France
It starts on the 13th of January 2018 in Paris
Cheers
Olivier
Thanks, Olivier — added!
Just launched the DIY Robocars Bangalore Meetup! First session planned for 11th Feb 2018. Here’s the link:
https://www.meetup.com/DIY-Robocars-Bangalore
We’re a group of Self Driving Car enthusiasts who’re eager to get our hands dirty and build some stuff! Conducted our first trials last month, preparing an Introductory session on the donkeycar build and software for the first meetup.
Chris and team, kindly add our meetup to the list!
Thanks! Added
Omaha, Nebraska – https://www.meetup.com/diy-robocars-omaha/
Thanks! Added
Hello DIYRobocar enthusiasts!
We are announcing a new space & track in SouthBay- 101 & Marsh Rd (Menlo Park)!
We call ourselves DeepRacing (DeepRacing.com), and we get together twice a month for our builds and will also have a race during the ‘off month for DIYRobocars’ – hence we are helping provide more frequent access to a track for the 1/10th – 1/16th scale.
Our first official build event is this Sunday 3/25, and inaugural larger race event 4/22, repeating every-other-month thereafter. Looking for builders, volunteers (contact Carlos) – more info and signup at http://www.meetup.com/deepracing
Big thanks to DIYRobocars(Chris) for the inspiration, and DonkeyCar (Will and Adam) for the de facto & enabling ‘hello world’ of mini-autonomous vehicles!
Carlos
DeepRacing.com
Carlos,
Many thanks — welcome and added!
Also @ironcarfrance
http://www.mylanderpages.com/ironcar2018/ironcar2018
Tks a lot !
Thanks. Added!
Hi! Tomorrow we are hosting the first DIY Robocars Montevideo, Uruguay:
https://www.meetup.com/DIY-Robocars-Montevideo/
“Big thanks to DIYRobocars(Chris) for the inspiration, and DonkeyCar (Will and Adam) for the de facto & enabling ‘hello world’ of mini-autonomous vehicles!”
We will be posting photos and comments after this first meeting!
Cheers,
Flavio
Thanks, Flavio. Added!
Hello, we have started the Ottawa Autonomous Vehicle Group in Ottawa, Canada and would also like to be added to the list! Our first meetup is on September 8 and we will be holding DIYRobocars events in future meetups.
http://oavg.ca
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Ottawa-Autonomous-Vehicle-Meetup/
Sincerely,
-OAVG
Hello!
The Ottawa Autonomous Vehicle Group in Ottawa, Canada has recently formed and would like to be added to this page.
We are planning to hold DIYRobocars competitions in the near future.
Our site is oavg.ca
meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Ottawa-Autonomous-Vehicle-Meetup/
Cheers!
Added. Thanks!
Hey-o, just stared DIYRC Seattle, will host a first meeting in a few weeks.
https://www.meetup.com/DIYRobocars-Seattle/
Excellent! Added
Hi zlite! I finished a race(move-it hackathon) in Guiyang, China and I am planning to host a meeting in Shenzhen. Here is the link:
https://www.huodongxing.com/event/6495781987600
Thanks. Added!
First Robocars meetup in Idaho! We are meeting in the beautiful city of Coeur d ‘Alene, which one of my members said, we were the first city to pass ordinances allowing fully autonomous vehicles! Thanks for everything y’all do!
Josiah, great to hear it. Do you have a link for the meetup?
hi so anyone could help me with https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72250159/calibrate-donkey-car-via-raspberrypi4-with-l298n-motor-no-16-channel-servo-dr
hi so anyone could help me with
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72250159/calibrate-donkey-car-via-raspberrypi4-with-l298n-motor-no-16-channel-servo-dr
Hello!
I help run the Embedded Machine Learning Club @ North Carolina State University. We would love to be a part of your page. We are currently involved with AWS Deepracer and F1Tenth and are getting started with Jetracer / Donkeycar this semester. We would love to be associated with your page. We are hoping to link up with another DIYRobocars group in the area and may provide a meetup link in the future.
https://getinvolved.ncsu.edu/organization/eml
https://embedml.github.io/
Great. Added!
Please add me as starting a group in Pennsylvania – halfway between Butler and Clarion. Meets will occur as enough interested parties are available and maybe held outside.
Also, can I use a Facebook page or YouTube channel to hold info?
Emlenton Donkeycar – Autonomous RC Vehicle Racing
First meeting for Emlenton Pennsylvania, Thrusday evening 3-30-23 at 6:30pm.
Pennsylvania has a group that meets in Emlenton. We already had our first meeting and look forward to the future.
https://www.meetup.com/emlenton-donkey-car/
JP: Thanks. Added!