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Raspberry Pi powers first driverless car in Formula SAE Brazil competition

Team Ampera made various prototypes before creating a Raspberry Pi-powered car capable of navigating the Formula SAE Brazil track autonomously.

Team Ampera pushed through various prototypes before creating a Raspberry Pi-powered car capable of navigating the Formula SAE Brazil track completely autonomously. The camera is a Luxonis OAK DW with an integrated vision processing unit (VPU), which allows it to run the YOLO object detection model to “see” where the cones are on the track. Once the Raspberry Pi receives the information about the cones, the human team members run their Python algorithms to build a map of the track.

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