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
Print	No

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

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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?