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The self-driving tiger tank (status: never finished)
An RC Tiger tank, an Xbox Kinect, a Raspberry Pi, and an office to navigate. Not every project ships — some just teach.
The plan was simple: take a radio-controlled Tiger tank, strap an Xbox Kinect on top for depth vision, wire it through a Raspberry Pi, and teach it to drive itself around the office.
We got the parts together and started working — and never took it to completion. Other things were more important, as they sometimes are, and the tank never got its licence.
It stays on this site anyway, because the habit it came from is the same one behind the projects that did ship: see an interesting problem, grab what is on hand, and start. Most of those bets pay off. This one just paid off in fun instead.
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