Blog posts tagged
"ROS"

109 posts

Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

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

Article Desktop

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
21 January 2018

Kyle Fazzari
19 December 2017

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

Article Internet of Things

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

Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical please visit https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs. My background is pretty heavily littered with robotics. A natural side effect of this is that I’ve published...

Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

Article Internet of Things

One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or rolling back is essentially just a matter of unmounting one snap and mounting the other. However, historically this was also one of their key downsides: every snap must...

Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago, but ran into dependency issues with a missing sbcl. Well, with surprisingly little fanfare, ROS Kinetic was released with support for arm64 in their prebuilt...

Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

Thibaut Rouffineau
7 September 2016

Welcoming the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk: the new drone development kit

Article Internet of Things

Parrot collaborates with Canonical to launch the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for the creation of autonomous and obstacle avoidance drones and robots. Powered by Ubuntu and ROS (Robot Operating System), it gives developers a familiar environment to prototype solutions such as autonomous driving, 3D...

Thibaut Rouffineau
7 September 2016

Maarten Ectors
2 October 2015

Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners

Article Internet of Things

IoT World: Hybrid, Erle and Canonical combine to commercialize IoT dev ROSCon: Canonical demonstrates power of apps on robots; shows Erle Spider Mark Shuttleworth keynote at ROSCon: secrets to ROS success   Canonical is taking its Internet of Things (IoT) innovation on tour over the few days; bringing a host of new...

Maarten Ectors
2 October 2015

Maarten Ectors
8 September 2015

The App-Enabled Spider

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by the Erle-Robotics team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using Ubuntu technology. Erle-Spider as the first legged drone powered by ROS and running snappy Ubuntu Core. This smart robot with a 900 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor

Maarten Ectors
8 September 2015

Maarten Ectors
5 August 2015

The first app-enabled spider

Article Internet of Things

If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot spider. Curious to see what people will do with it  

Maarten Ectors
5 August 2015

Maarten Ectors
27 March 2015

Autopilot Apps & Boards for Drones

Article Internet of Things

Drones are getting Snappy Autopilot Apps. On Indiegogo you can contribute to the PixHawk Fire (PXF). The PixHawk Fire (PXF) is an open hardware cape (daughter board) for the BeagleBone Black that allows you to create Snappy autopilot apps for drones. Behind the cape there is Erle Robotics, a startup based in Spain and led

Maarten Ectors
27 March 2015

Maarten Ectors
9 March 2015

Why Drones need Snappy Apps?

Article Internet of Things

Erle-Robotics just showed the world how Snappy Ubuntu Core can power the autopilot in their Erle-Copter drone and push drones to their limits. It is a really cool video but the message is a lot bigger. If you are a drone manufacturer or just a drone hobbyist, you might be an expert in building the

Maarten Ectors
9 March 2015

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