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First steps with micro-ROS (part 3)

using UDP over Ethernet

Posted on July 2, 2022

I spent some more time with the micro_ros_arduino examples throughout this week. I wanted to fix some of the issues from last week and also explore the use of UDP over Ethernet, with a Teensy 4.1 and an Arduino Portenta H7 Lite Connected. I started off by re-running some of... [Read More]

First steps with micro-ROS (part 2)

using UDP (WiFi) and multiserial transports

Posted on June 26, 2022

This weekend, I worked on some more micro-ROS examples. This was much more fun than last time because I had a working Arduino environment and a tried and tested workflow for building and testing micro-ROS applications. By this time, I also had an extensive list of resources (bookmarks/notes) to go... [Read More]

First steps with micro-ROS (part 1)

micro_ros_arduino examples with serial transport

Posted on June 19, 2022

This week I experimented with the Arduino Portenta H7, the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect, and the RPi Pico board, and tried micro-ROS examples with ROS2 Galactic. My goal was to implement a structured workflow for building and testing micro-ROS applications using these devices on Windows 10. Unfortunately, this proved to... [Read More]

AKROS(2) Teensy Update

and planning the next build

Posted on June 6, 2022

I finally got some extra time thanks to a long weekend, so I decided to bring the AKROS robot out of its box and make some upgrades. Last week, I received two Cytron MDD3A dual motor drivers which are compatible with the Teensy 4.1 Expansion board as I wanted. My... [Read More]

Setting up ROS2 on Windows

Native Installation, Docker, WSL

Posted on June 1, 2022

One of my goals for this year is to learn about ROS2 and microROS and implement them in robotics projects. However I wanted to do it differently this time around and work on Windows 10 instead of Linux. My main reason for this was to try something new as I... [Read More]