Join us for our monthly hack/race day at the new Oakland warehouse location for DIY Robocar events.
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There are two tracks:
- A white-line track, designed to model lanes on real roads:
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- A RGB lane track, modeled after the FormulaPi track:
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Rules:
For White-Line track:
• 1.5 meter (5 foot) wide course with borders in 70-110mm (3-4 inch) wide white tape.
• yellow tape at the centerline 35mm – 55mm (1.5-2 inch) wide
• The course must have at least one left turn, right turn, hairpin turn(1.5m outside radius) and gradual turn ( >3m outside radius)
• Course should fit in a box 20m x 15mUp to 3 cars at a time (for now)
• Course may not be smooth so the car should be able to handle step shaped bumps of up to 25mm (1 inch)
• People will stand 3 meters away from the track.
For RGB track:
• 10m wide track, with 15cm red, blue and green lanes.
• Sometimes 10cm-high walls will be erected on insider and outside edges of the track to assist Lidar-guided rovers.
