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This week, I accomplished quite a few things. First, I installed a dev tool called Foxglove on my Windows laptop. This tool is essentially Rviz (+ some additional features) for Windows and connects remotely to a ROS machine. This saved me a lot of time, since I dont need to... [Read More]

In the last update, I had setup the required nodes to publish a depth image and convert that into a pointcloud message. This weekend, I worked towards filtering the noise from this depth pointcloud. I started by playing with the Point Cloud Library (PCL) and the ROS nodelets provided by... [Read More]

Turns out I’m much more productive on long weekends, so here’s another post. A few months ago, while looking for some components online, I found the micro:Maqueen Mechanic Loader module. It’s a neat little metallic loader module powered by a metal servo motor. I thought it would be perfect for... [Read More]

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to get the OAK-D camera up and running with ROS1 Noetic. My goal was to produce a RGB pointcloud from the incoming depth and RGB camera images from the OAK-D. I initially started experimenting with the depthai_ros package made by Rapyuta Robotics... [Read More]

Since the last update, I have been waiting on acrylic parts for the OAK-D camera and the OAK-D itself. The OpenCV AI Kit - Depth (OAK-D) is a spatial-AI camera with a RGB and stereo cameras with on-board mono/stereo inferencing. After a few delays, apparently due to Brexit, the camera... [Read More]