Eddie Samuels and Comma.ai

• Eddie Samuels from Comma.ai
  • Been soldering and dremeling since the 7th grade
  • 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
    • Needed 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! Then use it with cabana!
• Stephens Game – How would you get a ball out of a tube?
  • Eddie – use a laser cutter
  • Stephen – potato cannon, making his own gun powder
  • Parker – squeezes the tube like toothpaste

Listen to Ep #65 to hear more about self-driving cars and the technology behind them.

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!