EP#81: Eddie Samuels and Comma.ai

Eddie Samuels and Comma.ai

• August Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics event is live! Come grab some food, beer, and socializing if you’re in the Houston area.
• Eddie Samuels 
  • Been soldering and dremeling since the 7th grad
  • 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
    • Need 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  here! Use it with cabana  here!
• Stephens Game - How would you get a ball out of a tube? Leave your answer in the comments below!
  • Eddie - use a laser cutter
  • Stephen - potato cannon, making his own gun powder
  • Parker - squeezes the tube like toothpaste

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

Tags: 3d printing enclosures, autonomous vehicles, CAD, Comma.ai, Eddie Samuels, ESP8266, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, PCB Design, Podcast, Self Driving Cars, STM32F413, Transceivers