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m3at

Cool project! Thanks for sharing

Two questions to know a bit more:

- how long did it take you to complete that project?

- what is the rough total cost?

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My first car took about a week. The second one took a day. The total BOM was around 400$.

Note: I am not great with hardware.

What took you so long the first time or: did you reuse compiled code the second time?

The first time I was building Donkey for an entirely new (and previously unsupported) SBC - the Asus Tinkerboard S. I was also unfamiliar with how everything was put together.

The second time was a breeze. Jetson Nano runs Ubuntu so getting everything to work was relatively easy.

Good to know, thanks for answering!

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