OMG: build your own self-driving car
| OMG: build your own self-driving car | |
|---|---|
| Name | OMG: build your own self-driving car |
| Location | The Yellow Gas Station – De Gele Pomp |
| Date | 2018/09/17-2018/09/19 |
| Time | 10:00-18:00 |
| PeopleOrganisations | Hackers & Designers, Formes Vives |
| Type | Meetup |
| Web | Yes |
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Hackers & Designers teamed up with French collective Formes Vives to create the next iteration of the DIY self-driving car.
During a unique 3 day collective endeavour we designed and built our own autonomous vehicles at the repurposed yellow gas station in Amsterdam Noord.
Together we continued our investigation on what it takes to build a DIY self-driving car. While experimenting with accessible technology in and around the self-driving car in a hands-on and playful manner and simultaneously discuss ethical and philosophical dimensions as well as societal implications deriving from our reliance on ubiquitous technology today.
By inviting Formes Vives and their expertise in building rolling parade objects we aimed to increase our first prototype in size, smartness, and flamboyance.
Participation was free
You could sign up by sending an email to info@hackersanddesigners.nl.
You had to bring:
- Yourself
- Your computer
- Sensors & Arduinos (if you have)
- Wheels
- French skills (if you have)
- Prototyping material: wires, paper mache, paint, brushes, pipes, tools…
No prior knowledge required
What did we build?
- A self-driving road
- A self-driving communist chair
- A self-driving park
- A self-driving blob
- A self-driving climate change survivor train
What more could it be?
- A bus
- A convertible
- An offroad jeep
- A sleazy limousine
- An amphicar
- A machine
- A carriage
- An aerocar
- A family station wagon
- A trailer
- A wreck?
- A hoverboard?
- A spaceship?