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24 alternatives to Self-driving Lego Robot using Python, Neural Networks

Hey folks, Check out a project I built over the past few days .. a lego mindstorms robot that autonomously drives around a track using vision/neural networks. It was coded entirely in Python. I did a short write-up and would love to get feedback. link: http://slowping.com/2012/self-driving-lego-mindstorms-robot/

This project demonstrates a Lego Mindstorms robot that autonomously navigates a track using computer vision and neural networks. Built entirely in Python, the robot learns to drive itself without manual intervention.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Self-driving Lego Robot using Python, Neural Networks launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A deep neural network based self-driving car, that combines Lego Mindstorms NXT with the computational power of a Raspberry Pi 3. - felipessalvatore/self_driving_pi_car

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I have been taking Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course. The lecture module on Neural Networks ends with an intriguing video of the ALVINN autonomous car driving itself along normal roads at CMU in the mid 90s. I was inspired by that video to see what I could build myself. A link to my incomplete write up was posted a couple of weeks ago (ouch!) but I finally finished it and open sourced the code tonight (so you can build your own self driving car). What do you think? http://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar https://github.com/dps/nnrccar

    2012 · blog.davidsingleton.org · its alternatives →

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    Autonomous RC car using Raspberry Pi and ANN. Contribute to multunus/autonomous-rc-car development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Some early results and next steps in adapting DeepMind's Genie world model for creating the music player of my dreams.

    2025 · matthieulc.com · its alternatives →

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    Build an autonomous industrial vehicle in sim

    2022 · polymathrobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Proud to share our open-source robot platform, Dobb·E, a home robot system that needs just 5 minutes of human teaching to learn new tasks. We've already taken Dobb·E to 10 different homes in New York, taught it 100+ tasks, and we are just getting started! I would love to hear your thoughts about this. Here are some more details, below (or see a Twitter thread with attached media: https://twitter.com/i/status/1729515379892826211 or https://nitter.net/i/status/1729515379892826211): We engineered Dobb·E to maximize efficiency, safety, and…

    2023 · dobb-e.com · its alternatives →

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    Build + Code + Play

    2017 · lego.com · its alternatives →

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    Starship▲234

    Self-driving robot for local delivery

    2015 · starship.xyz · its alternatives →

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    We wanted to do something very challenging to prove to ourselves that we can do anything we put our mind to. The reasoning for why we chose to build a toy TPU specifically is fairly simple: - Building a chip for ML workloads seemed cool - There was no well-documented open source repo for an ML accelerator that performed both inference and training None of us have real professional experience in hardware design, which, in a way, made the TPU even more appealing since we weren't able to estimate exactly how difficult it would be. As we worked on the initial stages of this project, we…

    2025 · tinytpu.com · its alternatives →

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    :robot: Introducing kids to coding with tiny virtual robots! - robotopia-x/robotopia

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    student, nomad in machine learning

    2019 · littlemountainman.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev - anteloc/ldraw-nova

    20d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI vehicle that learns about its driver

    2017 · toyota.com · its alternatives →

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    Self driving shuttles for in-campus travel

    2015 · aurobots.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn to program your own LEGO robots!

    2015 · lego.com · its alternatives →

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    I was fascinated reading through another recent HN submission about a highly efficient implementation of A* in Lisp, which got me thinking about how I could do something similar in Python. However, these kinds of pathfinding algorithms really need complex terrain/mazes with interesting obstructions to showcase what they can do and how they work. So, I started thinking about how I could generate cool and diverse random "mazes" (they aren't really mazes, but I'm not sure what the best term is). I got a bit carried away thinking of lots of different cool ways to generate these mazes, such…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Quadbot▲127

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    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Robots designed to help kids learn how to code

    2015 · makewonder.com · its alternatives →

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    Rex▲57

    The brain for robots

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-driving car kit that makes AI education accessible.

    2019 · robolink.com · its alternatives →

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    An robot to teach kids how to code by DJI

    2019 · dji.com · its alternatives →

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    API for building 3D perception AI for self-driving cars

    2018 · scale.com · its alternatives →

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    Easily create and deploy custom vision AI solutions

    2019 · neurala.com · its alternatives →

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    Fun, expressive robots for learning code and electronics

    2017 · littlerobotfriends.com · its alternatives →

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