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A few weeks ago, I got my hands on the PAA5100 Near (15-35mm) Optical Flow sensor from Pimoroni. With such a short range, it seemed perfect for one of my mobile robots, so I decided to write a ROS 2 H…
Let's get the job done. Setting up micro-ROS on resource-constrained edge computing systems like ESP32 was a tedious job for me, which made me think of writing a blog to make it easy. So in this artic…
Over the last few weekends, I've been trying to set up a visualization for AKROS2 on Unity. I have had some successes, and I think I have reached a state where I have correct transforms, and can visua…
Fixing the micro-ROS parameter server on my robot has been on my mind for a long time, but I got quite busy working on other things like setting up a visualization in Unity (I still have some issues t…
This week, I was supposed to be implementing the Parameter Server on micro-ROS, but I decided to put that aside for a while and work on updating the robot description instead. I made some hardware cha…
Recently, I migrated the software stack of my robot from ROS 2 Galactic to ROS 2 Humble. I thought it was going to be straightforward - add my Galactic nodes to a new Humble workspace, compile and it …
I know it's quite late for this post, but it has certainly been difficult getting my head out of the holiday period. But it is high time I sit down and look back at the rollercoaster ride that was 202…
Basic Usage Create a directory called umaineros2and cd into it. Paste the code below into a new file "Dockerfile" build it docker build -t umaineros2 . Run the container detached docker run -itd …
2022 was without a doubt an amazing year, as it included my very first trip to Japan and my very first ROSCon. ROSCon, for the uninitiated, is the Robot Operating System (ROS) conference, an annual ga…
