Blog posts tagged
“Edukit”

4 posts

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]

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This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of control, did a little math, and wrote the ROS driver for our robot. But it still required several nodes to be running at once, and sharing

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Your first robot: The driver [4/5]

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This is the fourth blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we worked on getting data out of the wireless controller and into ROS in a format meant for controlling differential drive robots like ours: the Twist message. Today we’re going to create

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Kyle Fazzari
11 February 2018

Your first robot: The controller [3/5]

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This is the third blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post you were introduced to the Robot Operating System (ROS), and got your robot moving by ROSifying one of the CamJam worksheets. Today we’re going to move beyond the CamJam worksheets, and work

Kyle Fazzari
11 February 2018

Kyle Fazzari
19 December 2017

Your first robot: A beginner’s guide to ROS and Ubuntu Core [1/5]

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Some time ago I created a blog/video series that walked the reader through creating a prototype using the Robot Operating System (ROS) and taking it to production using Ubuntu Core. However, that series was intended more for robotics professionals; it assumed quite a bit of ROS knowledge, and required some costly...

Kyle Fazzari
19 December 2017