+77Avadon77 That's a pretty big truck! The aftermarket for the Traxxas stuff is of a pretty good size in and of itself, some guys build variations of the Rally car that I'm using that go over 145 mph. Basically they buy the plastic mid-tub from Traxxas and then everything else is aftermarket, with most of the suspension pieces aluminum or carbon fiber. At MIT they use an open source ESC (it's called VESC) so that they have finer grain control over the motor. The VESC is about $110.
+DEM GER At this point, the intention is to go step by step, similar to the way we did the JetsonBot. There probably be a couple of variations of the car, one with a Jetson TX1, and one with a Jetson TK1. Both will use the same mechanical infrastructure such as acrylic platforms, and share electrical items like batteries and interfacing with the ESC and steering. I'm planning on having a computer platform, and then a sensor platform so it can be a mix and match type of arrangement. That should make it easy to swap out new sensors or computers to change the configuration.
+Berte Ladji Unfortunately the music is culled from recordings of me and some friends jamming over the years. As such, I've never posted them anywhere online, but they come in handy for the video channel because I don't have to worry about copyrights and such. Thanks for watching!
+TheManatilla lol Ours is a 800$ Truck, $600 jetson plus a $600 dedicated linux development computer, plus $600 stand.. plus plus plus.. we are about $4000 and we are just getting started. This is not a cheap field to develop in, not at least at this level.
Can you supply a BOM for the project please. Many thanks for your efforts.
+77Avadon77 That's a pretty big truck! The aftermarket for the Traxxas stuff is of a pretty good size in and of itself, some guys build variations of the Rally car that I'm using that go over 145 mph. Basically they buy the plastic mid-tub from Traxxas and then everything else is aftermarket, with most of the suspension pieces aluminum or carbon fiber. At MIT they use an open source ESC (it's called VESC) so that they have finer grain control over the motor. The VESC is about $110.
Jim,
Are you planning to take in to this endeavor by yourself ?
this is a nice nice project...and look forward to each step....
+DEM GER At this point, the intention is to go step by step, similar to the way we did the JetsonBot. There probably be a couple of variations of the car, one with a Jetson TX1, and one with a Jetson TK1. Both will use the same mechanical infrastructure such as acrylic platforms, and share electrical items like batteries and interfacing with the ESC and steering.
I'm planning on having a computer platform, and then a sensor platform so it can be a mix and match type of arrangement. That should make it easy to swap out new sensors or computers to change the configuration.
Nobody:
LITERALLY NOBODY:
JetsonHacks: "We only care about guts."
LMAO
This Traxxas is an expensive RC car, do you recommend to use the a 2WD version instead of this 4x4 ?, what disadvantages would it bring?..
You can look here: wp.me/p7ZgI9-K4 for more information about using a 2WD version. Thanks for watching!
Hey, did you use the Hokuyo UST-10LX Scanning Laser Rangefinder in the MIT RACECAR mannual?
This particular build does not have a lidar, it use strictly vision processing. We will be using the Hokuyo in an upcoming build. Thanks for watching!
Love the sound ehind all your videos. can you give me any link ?
+Berte Ladji Unfortunately the music is culled from recordings of me and some friends jamming over the years. As such, I've never posted them anywhere online, but they come in handy for the video channel because I don't have to worry about copyrights and such. Thanks for watching!
My goodness thats' a $500 RC car. Not to mention the cost of the TX1
+TheManatilla lol Ours is a 800$ Truck, $600 jetson plus a $600 dedicated linux development computer, plus $600 stand.. plus plus plus.. we are about $4000 and we are just getting started. This is not a cheap field to develop in, not at least at this level.