DIY Self Driving Vehicle: Build, Hack & Race a Robocar

We're co-organizing this event with our friends at DIY Robocars, Connected Car SF, and Connected Car SV

Two speakers

Chris Anderson (https://about.me/andersonchris) (3D Robotics (https://3dr.com/about/) CEO) will cover building + racing 1/10th scale and go-kart-sized self-driving cars. We'll hear about the upcoming racing series and have folks from the inaugural event (https://www.meetup.com/Self-Racing-Cars/events/234581265/) show off their cars.

Josh Hartung (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshhartung), (Polysync (https://polysync.io/) CEO) will present the Open Source Car Control project (OSCC), which is designed to make autonomous vehicle development more accessible and collaborative. He explains: "Working across the self-driving cars industry we saw that even for big companies, one of the primary barriers to entry is getting a car that you can control with a computer. Buying from an integrator can cost upwards of $100K and building it yourself often results in hacky, unsafe solutions. OSCC is a kit of open hardware and software based on Arduino that can be used to take control of throttle, brake, and steering of a 2014+ Kia Soul With the right car and some elbow grease, you can now build a by-wire test car for around $10K including the car.

I’ll present some of the details about how/why we developed the kit, some of the problems we solved, and where we’re hoping it will grow in the future. The result will be that the audience will understand what the kit does and how they can use it to accelerate their own work in developing self-driving car technology."

Why should you care?

• Find out about the next racing event
• get to meet and network with engineers who are building self-driving cars
• Learn how you can get involved with your current skill-set to then learn new skills and have fun.
• Find and team up with others - it's fun and you'll progress faster.
  Check out these great resources (https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Jw5XIJ0Y_YxTTjf6zEc74hyEbljuUgVLkzkp6Ulx3U/edit?usp=sharing) that Chris has crowdsourced (courtesy Chris/DIY Robocars (https://www.meetup.com/Self-Racing-Cars/)).

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About Chris:

CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. From 2001 through 2012, Chris was the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Before Wired he was with The Economist for seven years in London, Hong Kong and New York. Aauthor of the New York Times bestselling books The Long Tail and Free as well as Makers: The New Industrial Revolution.

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About Josh:

Through a combination of calamity, determination, and luck (probably in that order) I co-founded PolySync; a startup that is changing the way that companies develop self-driving car technology. I'm incredibly lucky to be surrounded by amazing people in all areas of my life and I live in one of the greatest cities in the US: Portland, OR.

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