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

Come meet 160+ engineers, makers & hackers who are building self-driving cars; our last event of the year!

We're co-organizing this event with our friends at DIY Robocars (https://www.meetup.com/Self-Racing-Cars/), SV Autonomous Vehicle Enthusiasts (https://www.meetup.com/autonomous/), Connected Car SF (https://www.meetup.com/ConnectedCarSF)

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.

Otávio Good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otavio_Good) (Google Translate programmer) will cover building the autonomous 1/10th scale vehicle Carputer (https://github.com/otaviogood/carputer) (details (https://oakmachine.com/avc-2016/)) which runs an end-to-end neural net and completed autonomous laps at the race.

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.

Josh will present some of the details about how/why they developed the kit, some of the problems they solved, and where they’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 & new self-driving tech.
• meet 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/)).

About Chris:

CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. From 2001 through 2012, Chris Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Anderson_(writer)) 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 Otávio:

Otávio Good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otavio_Good) is a programmer and inventor, the original author of Word Lens, the first augmented reality translation application that replaces printed text into the desired language in video without connection to the Internet.

Word Lens (Quest Visual) was acquired by Google and expanded from 7 to 27 languages of the Google Translate app.
Previously, Otávio co-founded Secret Level (acquired by Sega in 2006). In 2011, Otávio led the team All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S. that won the DARPA Shredder Challenge. He's currently at Google Translate.

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About Josh:

Josh Hartung (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshhartung) has been the product designer, co-founder and CxO of a number of companies, most recently in the autonomous vehicle industry with AutonomouStuff (CTO) and now PolySync (CEO), where his team is creating a modern, powerful platform for the development of autonomous vehicles. Josh is working to accelerate the arrival of software-defined vehicles and their Open Source Car Control project is a big step in that direction.

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