{"id":18594,"date":"2018-03-21T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T09:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18594"},"modified":"2018-03-22T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T05:00:47","slug":"autonomous-raspberry-pi-driving-competition-formula-pi-final-tonight-1830-gmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18594","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi driving competition Formula Pi &#8211; Winter 2017\/18 final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?w=2448&amp;ssl=1 2448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/formula_pi_static.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cambridgeshire-based UK robot manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piborg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Borg<\/a>\u00a0has held the winter 2017\/18 season Grand Final of their autonomous driving competition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formulapi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Formula Pi<\/a>. The finalists were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iqaudio.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IQaudIO<\/a><\/li>\n<li>lambda.p.racing<\/li>\n<li>Enigma<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swinders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swinders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdhayler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hayler-Goodalls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The competition, which sees self-driving Raspberry Pi-powered cars zooming around a twisting, multi-coloured track without any human intervention, is a masterclass in vision-controlled navigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8P2mM5XHjpM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The recording of the final is available here<\/a>\u00a0and is embedded below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Formula Pi GRAND FINAL! Winter 2017\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8P2mM5XHjpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see the robots in action, from a past round, below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/formula_pi_good_start.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18595\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/formula_pi_good_start.gif?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridgeshire-based UK robot manufacturer Pi Borg\u00a0has held the winter 2017\/18 season Grand Final of their autonomous driving competition, Formula Pi. The finalists were: IQaudIO lambda.p.racing Enigma Swinders The Hayler-Goodalls The competition, which sees self-driving Raspberry Pi-powered cars zooming around a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18594\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,19,45],"tags":[679,207,206],"class_list":["post-18594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-events","category-robotics","tag-autonomous","tag-formula-pi","tag-pi-borg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raspberry Pi driving competition Formula Pi - Winter 2017\/18 final - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18594\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raspberry Pi driving competition Formula Pi - Winter 2017\/18 final - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cambridgeshire-based UK robot manufacturer Pi Borg\u00a0has held the winter 2017\/18 season Grand Final of their autonomous driving competition, Formula Pi. 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