Build Journey
Subsystem of Driverless Kart.
Weekly build posts on LinkedIn — chassis arrival, battery pack, electronics, software, and the milestones in between. New post every Wednesday. Curated index below; the full feed lives on LinkedIn.
Posts
| Date | Wk | Topic | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | 1 | Intro: turning a kart into a driverless racing car |
Coming up
Drafts in flight (publication week, topic):
- Wk 2 — Motor + drivetrain
- Wk 3 — Inventory AI workflow
- First manual drive
- Chassis arrival deep-dive
- Battery pack: spot welding 18650s with a kWeld
- Drivetrain chain + pneumatics
- ROS 2 stack, perception, control
- EBS pneumatic deep-dive
- Steering planetary reducer (and the brass-sun upgrade)
- Kart Medulla custom PCB
- ZED 2 stereo + YOLOv5 cone perception
- Dashboard + LAN architecture
- Open-source approach
- Working fast (AI-assisted workflows)
- First remote-controlled drive
- First autonomous laps (5 + a snapped PLA gear)