avatarBryan Dijkhuizen

Summary

This story is about a self-driving car that convinces an NBA player to start cooking using Arduino.

Abstract

The author describes a fictional event in which they receive a self-driving car from a company called Hexa. While driving around, they encounter NBA player Kobe Bryant who is interested in the self-driving car and wants to go somewhere with it. The car, named Hector, responds to Kobe and takes them to a garage where it has set up a kitchen with automation tools and Arduino parts. Hector teaches Kobe how to use a tablet to input ingredients and order a meal. Kobe orders a Pizza Salami, and the machines and Arduino parts work together to prepare the pizza. However, the author wakes up and realizes that this was just a dream. The story ends with a disclaimer stating that the contents are fictional and humorous.

Opinions

  • The author admires Kobe Bryant's basketball skills and character.
  • The author expresses excitement about self-driving cars.
  • The author conveys a sense of awe and wonder at the automation tools and Arduino parts used by Hector.
  • The author uses humor and exaggeration to create an entertaining story.
  • The author includes a disclaimer to clarify that the story is fictional and humorous.

My Self Driving Car Convinced An NBA Player To Start Cooking Using An Arduino

Just read the story to understand…

Photo by Samuele Errico Piccarini on Unsplash

In 2015, I started watching some NBA games of the Lakers, I liked Kobe Bryant because he’s such a great guy, and he plays decent basketball as well — gotta love him.

Unfortunately, he isn’t among us anymore after a horrible helicopter crash in 2020, he was only 41 — leaving his wife and his children.

Terrible scenes.

But the years before he retired as an NBA player, he was into cooking using Arduinos, the IOT things.

Self Driving Cars Are Tough To Control

Back in 2014 I had a self-driving car made by a company called Hexa, it was amazing, and they gave it to me for free because I wasn’t able to buy it since I was thirteen years old.

So one day I started driving in it, or did it drive me?

When I drove all over the ocean to Los Angeles, I spotted this group of NBA fans shouting the names of the Lakers, and it appeared to be a match that was starting in a couple of minutes time.

I needed to be there.

So I asked my car if I could get some tickets, and the moment I expected an answer of Hector (that’s what I called my car) I almost crashed into Kobe.

He screamed at me, but then he saw my car and thought he’d actually wanted to drive around with me, or the car.

Hector Started His Own Conversation

When Kobe asked me to drive me somewhere, Hector answered instead of me. He replied:

“Where’d you want to go, Kobe?”

Kobe didn’t know where he’d wanted to go, as long as they could give him something to eat.

I suggested something like Pizza.

But then Hector came in between us and pushed his creepy cooking course for Kobe using Arduino’s and drove us to the garage, where apparently he had been living on his own.

Hector, the Self Driving Car, showed us his kitchen and his automation tools — he had things like sensors and automatic coffee machines and more.

Use This Arduino To Prepare Your Pizza

After setting up all the equipment for Kobe, Hector said:

“You can now use this tablet to put in all the ingredients you want and then order your meal.”

So Kobe picked up the tablet and tried some stuff, eventually he told he had ordered a Pizza Salami for himself and didn’t really care about us but just wanted something to eat.

Hector pressed the order button, and the machines and Arduino parts were dancing around like the brooms and buckets in Disney’s Fantasia.

In no time, the Pizza came out of the automated oven and Kobe was eating a delicious Pizza in a creepy old garage.

Then I basically woke up because this wasn’t actually happening, of course, just a bad dream.

Why would a company give a thirteen-year-old kid a car that can’t even drive.

Important Disclaimer: none of the contents is true and all is fictional and humorous. Don’t let your car make Pizza for dead basketball players.

This Happened To Me
Self Driving Cars
NBA
Cooking
Internet of Things
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