We built a car from scratch in high school and are now making it autonomous

2 sokem 4 5/28/2025, 7:03:38 AM video.sokem.dev ↗

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sokem · 1d ago
I’m Sokem Haile, a high school junior. Over the last 5 months, my teammate and I built a functional car completely from scratch . It now moves reliably, and we’re currently working on adding autonomous features.

For autonomy, we’re planing to use a Raspberry Pi, ESP32-CAM, ultrasonic sensors, GPS, and servo motors. The goal is basic obstacle avoidance and GPS-based navigation. e’re doing this with no formal lab or funding just persistence, curiosity, and a lot of late nights. If anyone here has experience with DIY autonomy, especially with low-cost components, we’d love to connect. also we are Happy to answer questions or connect with anyone.

JPLeRouzic · 1d ago
The world needs more people like you!

I know nothing about autonomous vehicles, but it seems to me that you can benefit from other efforts. You are probably aware that there are tens of such projects on GitHub.

What I would do is concentrate on a common but uneasy use case, such as parking, and evolve the functionalities from that.

Regarding the low-cost aspect, I believe that avoiding interpreted languages will reduce some computing power requirements.

sokem · 1d ago
Thank you so much that really means a lot:) and we’ve been studying similar opensource projects on GitHub, and they’ve been incredibly helpful
sokem · 1d ago
and You can check out the car in action at https://video.sokem.dev/.