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episode 81: EP#81: Eddie Samuels and Comma.ai
Eddie Samuels and Comma.ai
- August Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics event is live! Come grab some food, beer, and socializing if you’re in the Houston area.
- Eddie Samuels
- Been soldering and dremeling since the 7th grad
- The first thing he built was a simple 7805 mp3 battery charger, guided by one of the original hackaday.com projects
- Went on to get his EE degree at the University of Rochester and work for a year in the defense industry before moving to San Francisco to work at comma.ai
- Underwater Rover Project
- Project while in college
- Sealing the unit was the hardest part
- Moisture sensor built with strips of aluminum tape
- EV Jetta
- Built while in high school
- Need a custom coupler between engine and transmission
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
- Revenge of the Electric Car
- Comma.ai
- Open source self driving cars
- Panda
- The nicest universal car interface ever
- ARM M4 - STM32F413
- ESP8266 WiFi
- Transceivers for CAN BUS, LIN BUS, and GM LAN
- Can listen without the car modules knowing
- Can interface with OpenPilot to develop a self driving car
- Github Link
- Car bounties
- Earn $5 to $10k by porting the code to other vehicles
- Cabana - Demo
- Order a panda here! Use it with cabana here!
- Stephens Game - How would you get a ball out of a tube? Leave your answer in the comments below!
- Eddie - use a laser cutter
- Stephen - potato cannon, making his own gun powder
- Parker - squeezes the tube like toothpaste
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!
Tags: 3d printing enclosures, autonomous vehicles, CAD, Comma.ai, Eddie Samuels, ESP8266, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, PCB Design, Podcast, Self Driving Cars, STM32F413, Transceivers