Archive for March 22nd, 2010

Robot Operating System – turtlesim

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, March 22nd, 2010

ROS - turtlesim

The Robot Operating System is a Free and Open Source software bundle of amazing libraries that can be used with your robot. There are oodles of libraries– OpenCV, Wiimote, iRobotCreate (!!! WOOT), NAO robots… and many more.

Installing the ROS has been an interesting process for me. I started with my Mac, which didn’t work (at first), then went to my Ubuntu 7 machine, killed it… Tried again on my Mac, followed everything down to the error that “file is not of required architecture) … Then I had Ubuntu 9 installed, installed ROS… posted a question about a “bug” (more of a misunderstanding on my end :P ) on the mailing list… and BAM! IT WORKS!

So, all in all:

  • Haven’t made ROS work on a Mac yet
  • You need to run roscore to initialize the ROS nodes
  • This is awesome.

More later!

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