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Blog posts tagged
"sc:series:your-first-robot"

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

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

Desktop Article

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
9 March 2018

Your first robot: The driver [4/5]

Desktop Article

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
11 February 2018

Your first robot: The controller [3/5]

Desktop Article

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
21 January 2018

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

Desktop Article

This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware necessary to follow this series, and introduced Ubuntu Core, the operating system for IoT devices. We installed it on our Raspberry Pi, and used it to ...

Kyle Fazzari
19 December 2017

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

Internet of Things Article

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 equipment (the robot was ...