Donkey® Car
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An opensource DIY self driving platform for small scale cars. 
RC CAR  +  Raspberry Pi + Python (tornado, keras, tensorflow, opencv, ....) 
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What can you do?

  • Build your own toy car that can drive itself.
  • Drive your car with your phone or laptop.
  • Record images, steering angles & throttles.
  • Train neural net pilots to drive your car on different tracks.
  • Race your car in a DIY Robocars race.
See Examples
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How can I build one?

®You can make almost any RC car self driving using the donkey library, but we recommend you build the Donkey2 which is a tested hardware and software setup.  You can buy all the parts for ~$250 on Amazon and it takes ~2 hours to assemble. 

You can also buy kits from the Donkey® Store in the US, in Asia you can buy kits from Robocar Store if you are in Japan the Fabo Store sells in Japan only
View Instructions
View code on Github   
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Join the Donkey community.

  • Join our community on Discord (Similar to Slack)
  • Get help on Stack Overflow with the donkeycar tag
  • Submit bug reports on Github.
Learn More
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DIY Robocars is the community that kickstarted donkey into existence by hosting self driving races. There are now several meetups around the country. See diyrobocars.com to learn about events, classes, tips, projects, and instructions to build other types of cars.

Recent Vidoes

See more Donkey's in action. 

​Donkey is an open source project powered by volunteers with a shared interest to build their own self driving cars.