Makes of the Month

Nav2 Initial Bringup

This post is about the initial bring up of Nav2 on my robot. To be honest this is mostly vibe coded as I just wanted the minimal bringup (this is...

RPLidar Setup in ROS and Gazebo

In my last post I showed how I was mounting sensors to my robot. The sensors include an RPLidar. In this post I will talk about integrating the RPlidar...

OpenSCAD Generator for openGrid snap mounts

As mentioned in a previous post I am using openGrid as a modular baseplate for my current robot project. I’ve made a simple raspberry pi mount in Fusion that...

Deploying ROS on a Raspberry Pi using Docker

I personally dislike developing and compiling code on a raspberry pi. Especially given typical ROS workflows where you are going to derisk a bunch of stuff in sim first and...