Author Archives: Amith reddy

On Nov 7 2020, I gave a workshop at Hackday’s Remoticon to beginners about to get started hacking cars. It was a great experience and the organizers were amazing. If you are interested see the recording below and Workshop page for details about how to download software and installation instructions.

I’ve started Fast ai’s Intro to deep learning course last week. And I’m finding it great so far. I writing this to encourage who’s curious about deep learning to give FastAi’s course a try. You only need a a laptop and intermediate programming skills to get started. With just a laptop you can create someContinue reading “My Classifier Thought a Cat was a Hotdog.”

For our Engineering Capstone we worked with Maclean Engineering a company which builds mining equipment vehicles for hard rock mining. Maclean tasked us with designing and building a small scale platform for testing their autonomous algorithms for their mining vehicles. This platform named the Mule required these specifications: Carry a payload of 100 lbs ManeuverContinue reading “The Mule: A Test Platform for Autonomous Mining Vehicles”

This project is trying to add auto or self parking to my Honda CRV or my Honda Civic. August 26 Yesterday I manage to configure the white panda so I could output to the CAN bus. I tried to do a replay with can packets to unlock the doors but I didn’t manage to openContinue reading “Devlog: Hacking my Honda through the CANBUS”