Tindercar

Inspiration

• There was this cool car from Timing Architects that we wanted to try modern car safety features on and that we wanted to play around with

What it does

• It detects when there is something in front of it and keeps a safe, constant distance to its surroundings
• You can control the car using voice-control
• You can make it do cool tricks (drift, dance...)

How we built it

• Using the documentation, Python and the Arduino IDE

Challenges we ran into

• A camera with little to no useful official documentation
• A transistor was failing
• A completely new platform that we haven't developed for / dealt with previously

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Voice-control
• A working RGB- and depth-camera
• Collision detection and -prevention

What we learned

• Coding in Python and C++
• Dealing with the Arduino IDE

What's next for Tindercar

• Autonomous driving, self-parking, a "summon"-feature

Built With

• arduino
• c++
• hardware
• node.js
• python
• snowboy