If you don’t have sensors …
use your smartphone to give your robot senses, so it can see where it’s going. Almost any smartphone – even a $30 device – is like a box with sensors. All these sensors can be used for a robot. A … Read more →
Posts Tagged ‘ROS’
Resources and tutorials to build robotic applications based on Robot Operating System (ROS)
Orange Pi 4G-IOT worth some attention
This board is not designed with robotics in mind, but it could be helpful in some applications. It has an ARM processor, Android OS, and Cellular connectivity. In other words, the board can run ROS and stay connected to the … Read more →
ROS 2 Ardent Apalone was officially released. I made a list of 5 reasons why you should use it for your robot.
Coincidentally or not, after 10 years of ROS 1, the Open Source Robotics Foundation has launched a new version called ROS 2. ROS 2 (the code name “Ardent Apalone” – Apalone is a genus of turtles in the family Trionychidae) … Read more →
Template for a ROS Subscriber Using rosserial on Arduino
A few weeks ago I started writing a series of tutorials that ease the work of beginners in ROS. The first tutorial was about a template for a publisher node, the second tutorial was about a template for a subscriber … Read more →
Template for a ROS Publisher Using rosserial on Arduino
A few weeks ago I started writing a series of tutorials that ease the work of beginners in ROS. The first tutorial was about a template for a publisher node, the second tutorial was about a template for a subscriber … Read more →
Template for a ROS Subscriber in Python
A few days ago I wrote a tutorial about a template for a Publisher node in Python. In the same tutorial, I used the template to write a ROS node to generate a random number. Today, I continue the series … Read more →
CORE2-ROS: A development board for autonomous robots
The Raspberry Pi boards, and especially Raspberry Pi 3, are very often used in robotics. The list of reasons is long and includes WiFi connection, GPIO, USB ports, a powerful processor, 1GB RAM, compatibility with a number of Linux distributions, … Read more →
Template for a ROS Publisher in Python
I do not like to memorize definitions, methods, procedures, etc., but I like to find solutions to help me reach my final goal. In ROS, the structure of a simple node is repeated almost every time. To write the Publisher … Read more →
Installing and Setting Up Arduino with ROS Kinetic (Raspberry Pi 3)
This guide will walk you through how to install and setting up an Arduino board to work with Raspberry Pi 3 having in common ROS Kinetic. To walk through this guide, you must have a Raspberry Pi 3 with ROS … Read more →
ROS Kinetic: Publisher and Subscriber in Python
The first time I started reading about ROS was last year. Also at that time, I made the decision to learn as much about ROS and make as many projects as possible based on it. After reading the first tutorials, … Read more →