BlinkThorLabs
Building MentorPi-A1: From a Box of 3D-Printed Parts to a Robot That Drives Itself
Ackermann chassis, ROS2 on a Raspberry Pi 5, and the specific joy of hearing a buzzer confirm your first boot actually worked.
Automated Parking: Why Path Planning Is the Easy Part
The trajectory math was solved decades ago. Here's where the actual engineering effort goes instead.
Traffic Sign Recognition: From Pixel to Decision in Three Pipeline Stages
Detection finds it, classification names it, temporal fusion decides whether to trust it. Here's the full path.
Blind Spot Detection: What Drivers Get Wrong About It
Not a driver-facing FAQ. A corrective for the misconceptions that show up in our own sales decks first.
Lane Keeping Assist: The Fight Between the System and the Driver's Hands
A conversation that actually happened, more or less, over a whiteboard and two cold coffees.
What Adaptive Cruise Control Actually Feels Like to Tune
Process noise tuning matters more than your motion model — and jerk matters more than either, if you're the one sitting in the passenger seat.
Inside AEB: The Millisecond Decision Between a Warning and a Brake
LKA/LDW, TSR, ACC, BSD — none of them carry the same weight as this one. AEB is the feature where a wrong call in either direction has real consequences.
AUTOSAR Classic vs Adaptive: Picking the Right One Isn't About Which Is Newer
A decision framework, not a recommendation. Answer these honestly and the choice mostly makes itself.
Demo Day: Our ADAS Prototype's First Real Road Test
Live, present tense, as it happens. Months of bench and simulation come down to the next ninety seconds.