comma ai panda manufacturing!

george hotz archive · Intermediate ·📄 Research Papers Explained ·8y ago

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The comma ai team discusses their manufacturing process for the Panda device, including 3D printing, quality control, and firmware updates, with a focus on research papers and fine-tuning techniques.

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yo yo yo welcome to the kana ai periscope we are here i'm george and i'm here with eddie hey guys um we are manufacturing uh pandas don't think anyone heard that no one was in our periscope yet so these are panda cases we have many many many panda cases this is a small amount of the number we have oh we have many more than just what's here um so i'm picking out the ones that are good many many panda cases you see this is a good one it doesn't have any of that raft crap on it you see this is a bad one it has crap on it this one is no crap so it's all 3d printed yeah we were originally going to sand the cases we have a lot of sanding equipment set up but sanding sucks oh so i mean you know they look pretty good we're figuring out what we can do if we can do a little bit better than the finish you want to do videos for common ai please do videos for coming yeah where's that scale yeah let's get the scale so we're gonna figure out how many of these we have by way bro pandas are in danger no more you don't need to manufacture you know china owns all the pandas in the world um so do you want to show the people a raft uh you get to show them a printed one and show them like what they look like when you break them off that's something oh there we go those commas are pandas those are pandas oh these are pandas look this is what a bunch of pandas looks like when we manufacture them i'm sure they have plenty of pants in shenzhen well so this is the kama side of the case we have a homicide in the case and the panda side of the case we're about to go get the scale to figure out how many of these we have so we've manufactured we've we've we're not going to announce the exact order number but i will say that it's over one thousand and i will say also that it's not over nine thousand so we sold somewhere between one and nine thousand pounds um so yeah it's about time for these guys to start shipping uh the first finished pandas are right here this this little batch of six right here it's pandemonium you see this is a sanded panda so some people are going to get sanded pandas but yeah oh excellent um so this is our scale how accurate is it you know they they watch you after you buy a scale really yes it's a blue skin it's a food scale all right cool so that's 148 grams hair yes we'll tear it to the box and now let's weigh one panda two panda three panda four panda seven eight 10 pandas weighs 34 grand let's do 20 11 12 13 14 15. is liars okay so 20 pandas is 70 grams let's just do 25 so i can do math easier [Applause] 21 22 23 24 and 25. okay so 25 is 86 oh 86 that's not a nice number oh this is computer again we have computers to do math we have computers to do math i think actually i want to fix my phone to not so 86 is what's the best way to contact me right here on periscope if you have something secret to tell me we don't like secrets um so i don't want to know okay so 86 is 25 we should write that down somewhere 25 86. oh prius is coming along well uh we got with our top guy on the prius um so 86 86 is 25. 100 100 is 344. yeah that's a better way to think about it okay so that's 249 right there wow these things i thought there were a lot more in these boxes than all right so we're going to sort them between good and good bad bad bad you know you know like the truth about being ceo of the company is when things are you know when people say like not my problem um well it's my problem or what's what's yeah that's that's always my problem you know it's never not my problem it's always my problem like counting the paints 344 okay we should batch these off in batches of 100 is it possible to pay a visit to our office unfortunately not this is not a museum this is not we do not we're not google uh we don't have vitamin water in the lobby um we have water in the sink oh google yeah you can walk into google my ex-girlfriend's in pittsburgh i think i don't know if i want to go there wow 47 people hello people um you know how many times do i say when i periscope that i need a tripod all right so what did you say 100 344 right 344 grams okay we're almost there ye oh that means a new curse word alt-right some guy wrote heat on that thing i don't know what that means all right that's 342 grams worth of comma side of panda cases that's pretty good yeah there's probably another 200 in there yeah so let's get up to what was it three three three forty two three forty four three forty four so that's that's i gotta get to six eighty eight get to six eighty eight let's see how many fit in the box right if you make good stuff we'll tweet it um i like twitter what let's measure the volume of pandas would be proud um you can shut that door so my periscoping doesn't bother the employees who are actually working is and then we can see if they're scamming us and this isn't actually made of abs but it actually is abs and you know maybe it's 15 ethanol you know yeah corn subsidies yeah can you make plastic out of ethanol bla is mostly is this one yeah that sounds like the kind of thing they would like to sell in america that's why pla melts yeah when are the first hundred shipping probably tomorrow i don't know we gotta finish we gotta finish the firmware which is what i really should be working on not carrying panda places but it kind of kind of gives us a whole lot of fun a secret it's not a huge secret you can download it you just don't have the source code to it not a secret everyone knows about vgd otherwise tell us what the car see you know true story and this doesn't leave periscope we were originally going to call it mobile id um and but then we decided not to we called division you know wait we're working on something now called location d or in other words apple next date uh yeah we gotta we got a guy we're just we're we're just bringing him on full time now to work on uh localization real quick i missed that message if someone wants to say what it is again okay so what we're doing is for those who just joined these are cases that are going to go on pandas we're going to get 688 grams of them and once we have 688 grams of panda where are the boards well the boards got delivered this morning to one of the places that's doing final panda assembly addresses we do have we have 1 000 boards [Music] in holding right now after these ones get shipped out we're gonna authorize the next thousand to be made yeah and they look kind of like lego right like they're kind of cool we actually thought about building a lego finishing machine for pandas um so what we bought and what's getting here today is uh is is is a uh ultrasonic uh wash and maybe we'll just put all these cases in the wash and make sure that you all get clean pandas you know um so panda cases are 3d printed and then they're glued together uh because there's no user certificate parts inside um a nice analogy board report this is this is what the new logic boards look like guys someone hasn't seen that before yeah beautiful they are they are pretty beautiful i like them this is pretty close to a work of art yeah we're originally going to do white and blackboards why don't we go with the whiteboards so whiteboards apparently get really gross when they go through an oven oh that's too bad yeah it's kind of changed but at least we learned that before hey you know what that then if you get something with a white board you know it was hand soldered um like a really expensive white um well we can't afford that that is definitely nothing oh no the scale turned off and it would what save my tear oh this is a tragedy oh okay you know what another empty one yeah yeah yeah yeah stickers on it stickers on it are you sure they weigh the same i don't know what's the manufacturing variants of these things i love sterilite what's sterilite is that what makes up tomato no that's the company oh what's that remember okay so i think maybe we'll put 250 in each bin okay so what's what should that way 360. 860 grams okay we don't do we don't do marketing and we don't do branding um we don't do advertising because i don't know i mean like we're they're gonna build a good product and win or we're not i'm not gonna try to like scam people with advertising like awareness is one thing but i really think if you have things that are like 10x better as comma starts to succeed and a lot of people start saying you know dude i have a self-driving car right like it's something people are going to talk about you don't need marketing when you have virality um and if you don't have virality what it means is that your product just isn't good enough um it will build a better product and you know that's really what we're uh what we're motivated by here building the best products we possibly can and what do i think about sendax well i do yeah i don't know what centex is so if you tell me what's the number guys uh 863 [Music] yeah right that guy um i don't know is that they're going to send that to maybe that's in the comments i don't know how many cars did i trade the first hardware unlocks for just one car but also three phones right so when you trade one phone for a car and three phones you definitely win how many rev bees do we have left none they're all gone do you have any red bees left i think there's some uh [Music] you know we wanted to see how people would react to pandas we wanted to see if it worked and we wanted to test our own manufacturing um red c is really where pam is at and of course everybody who paid for a panda will be getting a red free and contest winners will also be getting revzies because i just don't want to do a friend boobs anymore um so yeah we're going to be getting we're going to try to have the cases finished up can we get could semester come in this weekend yeah if we get the cases finished up um yeah well this is it's a whole lot easier if we're not getting the standing yeah oh they're fine with that they're fine yeah what's the biggest issue we've overcome while creating the manufacturing pipeline i don't know just you're making a lot of something i've never made this many of something before i shipped hardware before but um this is a lot and this is i mean pam is not a super complicated product product it's not like a phone or anything but it's not that simple i'm at 862. okay you're at 251 maybe eight so should i be at 8 59. no all right we'll put in one more for good luck so now we know like an approximately full satellite is about 250 of them all right all right these are all common these are all common and they all pass the hots goodness we all pass the hots goodness test yeah yeah 250 so we're going to try to we're going to try to get a thousand of these these kids do you have more comments for me to break off i need a little tripod for my house all right we're going to try to get another 662 gram of pan this is the comma side of the comma looks broken broken [Music] see the broken you see it's got like that crap on it i'm not sure yeah and then our ultrasonic washer gets here today should we should we show them the nice folks on periscope the ultrasonic uh washer can we get it yeah yeah they're not right these are all comma yeah get a chest strap or mount the phone so this is what it looks like see that's comma and this is what they look like when they're off the panda production clean slap off of this whoops doing everything one-handed for you guys man prius is going well we have our best folks on prix what if the comma gets contaminated by panda look at all those copper will the civic get increased programs during the civic already has increased difference oh you mean more increase than the six percent um we're 12 people uh no we don't plan to ship any firmware updates at least for a long time to increase torque beyond what it is um silky smooth is yeah we we're working on silky smooth um so if you see rick blass in the chat he's our uh he's our controls engineer uh it might be my soundcloud i do have a soundcloud um he's the guy who's working on our silky smooth controls we also have an intern coming uh starting soon and he's gonna be working on controls as well so controls is about to get really good yeah rick does a great job he does how many panda do you have a side yeah i guess we can put them on a scale yeah yeah so how much for a feature hey if you know what i'm at this stage of my rap career where if you can get me hits and views i'll throw a verse together i got 16s all day man uh the a8 no no one is an a8 we're ghost riding for the masses right man if someone buys me an r8 i will make open pilot work buy me a personal alright not for comment right now you buy me an r8 i'll make i'll make open pilot work on it there's an a8 you really got something going on yeah that's not the largeness i don't know actually i used to have mercedes s-class was pretty nice um yeah rev c is going to be two boards like ref b but what's what's what's gonna what's going to upset the uh fine folks about the rev c's on the board they're not socketed no they're actually soldered together oh mentioned no no no they're talking about a8s because they're level three autonomy all right so you see like i don't know i have mixed feelings about that level three autonomy can you see rev city yeah what is the panda um check out our medium if you wanna know these are fcs um so let's see do you haven't assembled it here this is the rfc that i was working on debunking with just arrived to see [Music] is what they look like there's about the finished strategies notice the case looks a little bit different from the raspberry all right which printer we used our zortrax m200s should we show on the printer yeah some prototypes oh the prototype so i can't show the photo they're sealed in the front there i won't open any of the printers um just going in here and you guys know about our data center right so data center um many many pandas uh here's our printers uh we fill more schlapp dom and abby they're all printing some of them are printing secret stuff um yeah so this is what your pan is gonna look like in this slightly unsanded case they look pretty good um this is this is a really good alternative to injection molding yeah i saw the atlantic story today um 8 million miles per day maybe in simulation not in reality the i don't know i mean simulator might work uh yeah the ship the the data in the shipper app is of course being used including trainer models um i don't know about simulation working at the end of the day it's not like simulation is a bad thing and it's certainly a good place to test but i'm actually using a simulation to develop your algorithms and what you're doing there is you're hard coding your simulator what is the giraffe they thought the giraffe was a joke that's real uh do we have like a nice giraffe minister how old it doesn't have any of this new switches oh okay okay we'll show them today so that's the idea of the giraffe um you see that this plugs into the uh the mobile eye and the honda this is where you plug in the wire and this is where you plug in your pan so it lets your panda connect to whoops it lets your panda connect to the uh special place in the honda that you can control the car from so this is a giraffe um i think we're just going to open source them la timer is already selling stuff that's a lot like this open board openboards.i o check it out um so you know yeah we're not trying to we're just gonna probably open source this uh anyone who wants can can make and sell them uh updates for open pilot um how has it been in the giant panda should we should we should we okay giant panda was like apple you know we were not planning to support giant pandas long term um there's a lot that we haven't announced but i wouldn't invest too much into giant pants but that's all it's like a giant pants i mean less than alpha very low not giant giant pandas were were just really for us to test pandas and for rev b panda holders they're not really going to work with refsea pandas um we have better stuff planned than giant pandas um we can't let them know the big secrets what next animal is coming up well there were common koalas briefly yeah the intel discontinued the jewel oh yeah remember that joke the jewel and the other thing what's it called oh yeah edison the jewel yeah or no is it just the jewel that got killed no no i think they actually canceled i can't tell i mean it's not intel's a disaster that's cool but yeah i mean like the support files they released you find a lot of bugs in what an open pilot what bugs well do you mean bugs or do you mean like uh like you know places where uh you have to disengage cities to make infrastructure changes i don't think that's really worth it um like the truth about self-driving is the whole hard part is interoperating with humans like if you you have to make a change that's so radical you'd have to like take all the humans off the road and i don't really see that happening anytime soon maybe in like very restricted areas in some cities um we don't have a common store should we call our store so what i'm trying to figure out now is like when i'm breaking these things off are some of them predestined to be bad or is it about my technique uh i think some are just pre-tested and i think that's what it might be but some is ripping tanks what bugs have you found in open pilot um finally issues on github if they're real bugs we'll absolutely fix them oh i saw the one about the rear view mirror yeah we'll work that at the next release sorry about that what was that um it was uh just just this is a stupid bug no the the disabling of the rearview mirror mode didn't work uh in this setting the settings yeah people like the rear viewer people like disabling your room um if you have a oneplus 3 it's really not useful the 3t it's a bit more useful um you've been around for a while that's definitely true uh you found you found bugs still in open pilot yeah let me know let me know what they are what kind of stuff is there going to be a neo s4 i don't know maybe probably yeah i mean we have some things planned that i think they're going to need an update to the os i'm not 100 sure on it um but yeah i mean we have we have all the updated infrastructure replacements so if we do decide that we need to modify the underlying operating system if you see there's now a sub module in open pilot called pi extra pi extra lets us change the python packages without having to change the operating system [Applause] all right guys um this is getting difficult with the uh holding this and doing things you're taking a ride in uber self-driving in pittsburgh how was it is it any good yeah it's just a work in progress it's sort of here i i've been an uber self-driving car as well um nothing too impressive so yeah i'm gonna let you all go for now we'll be back on later if we get another cool step in the manufacturing we want to be real open with our panda manufacturing processes and no to everybody who ordered it you will be getting them pretty soon yeah we'll definitely meet our four to 12 week deadline uh thanks everyone bye bye bye swipe down to stop

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Date of stream 23 Aug 2017. George Hotz and comma.ai team. View on Periscope with original chat: - https://www.pscp.tv/comma_ai/1lPKqwZglmbJb Twitter for this broadcast: - https://twitter.com/comma_ai/status/900486191836823553 Periscope playlist: - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzFUMGbVxlQuPpBMhodw6lviMtCUDF_UQ We are not affiliated with comma.ai. Official communication channels: - https://comma.ai - https://twitter.com/comma_ai - https://youtube.com/commaai - https://medium.com/@comma_ai - https://github.com/commaai - https://discord.comma.ai How to get a job: - https://comma.ai/jobs How to collaborate: - https://comma.ai/services Buy things to support comma.ai: - https://comma.ai/shop Are you interested in openpilot? Knowledge base: - https://wiki.comma.ai Check out the code: - https://openpilot.comma.ai Is my car supported? - https://comma.ai/vehicles Frequently Asked Questions: - https://comma.ai/faq How to setup openpilot: - https://comma.ai/setup Comma Secure Shell: - https://ssh.comma.ai API Documentation: - https://api.comma.ai CAN analysis tool: - https://cabana.comma.ai Review and annotate your driving data: - https://my.comma.ai Leaderboard: - https://my.comma.ai/leaderboard Comma Connect App: - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/comma-connect/id1456551889 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.comma.connect Research: - https://github.com/commaai/comma2k19 - https://github.com/commaai/comma10k - https://github.com/commaai/research Official George Hotz communication channels: - https://geohot.com - https://instagram.com/georgehotz - https://twitch.tv/georgehotz - https://github.com/geohot - https://youtube.com/geohot - https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz We archive George Hotz and comma.ai videos for fun. Follow for notifications: - https://twitter.com/geohotarchive Unofficial communities and resources: - https://reddit.com/r/comma_ai - https://reddit.com/r/geohot - https://commasupport.zendesk.com Thank you for reading and using the S
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The comma ai team discusses their manufacturing process for the Panda device, including 3D printing, quality control, and firmware updates, with a focus on research papers and fine-tuning techniques. The team aims to meet the 4-12 week deadline for manufacturing Panda.

Key Takeaways
  1. Manufacture Panda devices using 3D printing
  2. Conduct quality control checks on Panda devices
  3. Update firmware for Panda devices
  4. Use ultrasonic washer for cleaning Panda cases
  5. Apply research papers to improve manufacturing process
💡 The comma ai team emphasizes the importance of virality and community engagement in the success of their products, and is working to improve their manufacturing process through research papers and fine-tuning techniques.

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