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[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

@adriyuhh @HackTheNorth @_pranavnt @JasonYuan869 @freemanxjiang tyy!! so much fun building it, we might add setup instructions later if anyone's got similar hardware

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

🚢 couldn't be happier to ship my favourite hardware hack yet: we built Tandem, a lightweight AI-driven urban bike assistant at this year's @HackTheNorth!

here's the story behind it (full deets at https://t.co/fcRE4X5AjB):

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

++ burning our faces off at fire noodles

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

I’m still in a bit of disbelief that we managed to get it all working (with 90%+ accuracy!)—massive thanks to @HackTheNorth for organizing <3

ly all @_pranavnt @JasonYuan869 @freemanxjiang, thank you for making this a weekend to remember!

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

bonus pics from the weekend: our makeshift sleeping setup next to the mech lab

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

That evening, we’d go on a few dozen test rides all across Waterloo (most of which weren’t on bike lanes), sensing 90% of cars behind us and storing everything in real-time :)

peek our stupid camera setup for demos lol

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

Over the next 14 hours, we’d collectively have an ungodly amount of Awake chocolate as our team built night vision, open-source location + incident tracking for cities, passing & blind spot alerts, and make it all work offline and with nothing more than a mobile power bank

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

By noon that day, we finished off our modelling & APIs, and headed out of E7 for our first test run around the parking lot of @HackTheNorth (and somehow, it worked!)

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

At around 6am on Saturday, we had everything going, using @JasonYuan869’s laptop GPU and @freemanxjiang’s hacky dashboard for testing

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

After lugging our hardware halfway across the continent (ty @_pranavnt) and a bike 100mi to Waterloo, we mounted a depth-sensing OakD camera to the back of my mountain bike and built a box around a tiny Raspberry Pi for on-device ML & a HUD

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

Cities are unscalable right now—they're sprawling, asphalt-filled messes hostile to anyone outside of a car.

If we want more liveable cities, we need meaningful alternatives to this.

The US & Canada don't want to build bike infrastructure, so we decided that we would instead.

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

@DanielleFong @HackTheNorth @_pranavnt @freemanxjiang @JasonYuan869 it us!

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

yo who’s at hack the north rn, @_pranavnt & I are in e7

[rishi kothari @rishiosaur]

@aadilpickle punishment for leaving sf tbh

[Saturday Hack Nights @SaturdayHacks]

we’re live 🔥 come join us this Saturday @ 8pm to jam & hack at the @OttoPetsHQ https://t.co/KjDyne2WVS

[aadilpickle @aadilpickle]

Hosting a park hang this thursday in sf near soma - dm for more info/rsvp but its gonna look a lot like this: