News & updates on self driving car project (Patreon)

Hey,

First of all I wanted to inform that tomorrow I am about to change the setting, that new supporters will be charged upfront to prevent taking benefits an leaving before new month has ended. This happened before but I didn't care. Now I have to do the change since I'll start to create some project kit's, that I also like to give-away to you (parts are ordered, can't wait to start).  
No worries, nothing is changing to you. However, if you decide to up the support in future the difference will be charged immediately.
I hope that makes sense. If you have any questions or objections just message me. Here is an article from the Patreon help for that change.
We can also discuss this in the slack workspace .

Speaking of slack: Some of you have already joined the work space and it seems to work nicely. I think it is a good way to get involved in running projects and chat a bit. I'm currently on vacation but I check my phone from time to time :-)

There are also news on the self driving car project. In the last week I set up a list of hub drive suppliers on aliexpress. In since I submitted the third and last video to electromaker I have the money now to order parts. I couldn't resist and ordered four 10" 1kW hub motors two days ago for $500. The 8" drives were very compelling with torque etc. but I decided 8" is to small for a regular street. I bought now these here.. Those weren't even in the list... probably have been added this week.
What is missing now are controllers, batteries and a steering system which turns out to be very complicated and just as expensive as the hub drives. The list of things that I still need to get an MVP still sums up to $1500. There will be another video on that.
I try to activate my banggood contact and get some parts sponsored.... another sellout... but it's for a grater good and the last banggood shout out was just 20sec vids, discount codes and no work at all.

Which small project would you like to see as kits? I have ordered parts for audio codecs, game console/composite stuff, vga connectors and much more I forgot already?
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I continue my relaxing vacation kayaking in hail storms here, lol