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Re:Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O buil... by axegon_ on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:14AM (#23829065)
Damn it... Just before the pandemic I had started piling up hardware to start building something similar(I was intending to use a raspberry pi). And since I couldn't go and look for parts in person(I'm not that crafty with my hands so I genuinely need to see in person the part in order to be able to tell if it's going to work) so I postponed it. And today I see this... Feeling kind of sucks, even though I can't really explain why.
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Re:Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O buil... by speedgoose on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:43AM (#23829214)
You should still do it! I'm sure you will have a lot of fun, and it's perfectly normal to do something that has already been done before, it happens all the time. Your solution doesn't have to be better, but it will be different and interesting.
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Re:Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O buil... by axegon_ on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:17AM (#23829366)
Got other things lined up at the moment for better or worse, might go back to it at some point. It's just that "the Simpsons did it" kind of feeling, you know...
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Re:Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O buil... by ponker on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:47AM (#23829228)
If you think it sucks that your idea was done before you by... Google ... you need to cut yourself some more slack.
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Re:Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O buil... by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:09AM (#23829328)
I'm just stunned at how much effort they went in to carving and painting wood.
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Re:Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O buil... by sdenton4 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:25AM (#23829689)
Gotta use that army of UX Designers for something...
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Re:Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O buil... by throwaway6000 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:08PM (#23835473)
You can create a more robust version using nvidia jetson nano/xavier instead of raspberry pi.
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