TItildef·May 13, 2023Submission
Donkeycar: A Python self driving library
92 points · Open discussionautorope
donkeycar
Python2017–2023
autorope / donkeycar
donkeycar
Open source hardware and software platform to build a small scale self driving car.
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4Mentions
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3.5KGitHub stars
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Open source hardware and software platform to build a small scale self driving car.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI personally don’t but there’s a DIY robocars event near me where people compete in races using little self driving cars. Some people were using the AWS one but more popular in the “stock” division was the Donkeycar -
https://diyrobocars.com/
https://github.com/autorope/donkeycar
I haven’t made one, I just go with my kids to show them how cool it is to be an engineer, but Donkeycar seems popular and performs well in the contests.
In Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O built with TensorFlow-LiteDonkey: a self driving library and control platform for small scale DIY vehicles
4 points · Open discussionAlso the full repo is mentioned (I think the article is just a general highlighting of the full repo):
https://github.com/wroscoe/donkey
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