Self Driving Car: Setbacks and progress

Setback: Ok - so I started assembling the PiCar that will use Google Coral and I realized that I put the heat sinks on when I shouldn't have, as the HAT board doesn't give enough clearance.

However, I managed to successfully flash the Jetson Nano.

Assembled most of the hardware.  Unfortunately I didn't get the needed batteries with my package - so I'm off to the Internet to find some batteries.

Here are some pictures of my build of the Jetbot so far.














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