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Open source hardware and software platform to build a small scale self driving car.
http://www.donkeycar.com
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Changes needed to install instructions to run on a rpi 3b #358

Closed mtfurlan closed 5 years ago

mtfurlan commented 5 years ago

I found a few issues trying to get donkeycar running on a pi, following the instructions at https://docs.donkeycar.com/guide/install_software/#install-donkeycar-on-linux

Originally, I tried the prebuilt, had a few issues with networking, and gave up because I've had a history of having issues with how people package pi images sometimes.

So just following the linux install instructions: It says

sudo apt-get install virtualenv build-essential python3-dev gfortran libhdf5-dev
virtualenv env -p python3
source env/bin/activate
pip install tensorflow==1.8.0

If you install tensorflow 1.8.0, that was compiled for python 3.4 and a pi has python 3.5. You also need to install libatlas-base-dev libopenjp2-7-dev libtiff5 Also run

pip install picamera Adafruit_PCA9685

So put together,

sudo apt-get install virtualenv build-essential python3-dev gfortran libhdf5-dev libatlas-base-dev libopenjp2-7-dev libtiff5
virtualenv env -p python3
source env/bin/activate
pip install tensorflow picamera Adafruit_PCA9685

At this point, also run raspi-config and enable camera and i2c in the interfacing options, and reboot.

There is then a link to calibrate car, which references donkey createcar, but doesn't tell you what it is.

If you skip around to the drive the car page, it says to run

donkey createcar --template donkey2 --path ~/mycar

Sadly, donkey createcar has never heard of this --path flag, but if you run it without anything, it says it's missing the path.

donkey createcar --template donkey2 ~/mycar

I think that's all the changes I had to make to get it to work.

tawnkramer commented 5 years ago

thanks! should be fixed now.