Saturday, September 14, 2013
Most of the groovy packages are broken including rosserial. Short version of building from source: cd ~/overlay_ws/src git clone git://github.com/ros-drivers/rosserial.git cd ~/overlay_ws/ catkin_make source ~/overlay_ws/devel/setup.bash quick ros tutorial on using rosserial http://wiki.ros.org/rosserial_arduino/Tutorials/Hello%20World start the ur5 simulator roslaunch ur5_description test.launch source ~/overlay_ws/devel/setup.bash rosrun rosserial_python serial_node.py /dev/ttyUSB1 source ~/workspace/devel/setup.bash rosrun talker talker.py rosrun rqt_graph rqt_graph rostopic echo […]
Saturday, September 14, 2013
cd ~/overlay_ws/src git clone git://github.com/ros-drivers/rosserial.git cd ~/overlay_ws/ catkin_make source ~/overlay_ws/devel/setup.bash http://wiki.ros.org/rosserial_arduino/Tutorials/Hello%20World roscore rosrun rosserial_python serial_node.py /dev/ttyUSB1 rostopic echo JointState rostopic pub -1 /shoulder std_msgs/UInt16 195
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
This should be pretty straight forward but unfortunately the package is broken. Groovy is supposed to use .rviz configuration files for rviz instead of the older .vcg files. The urdf_tutorials were never properly tested or groovy changed sometime after urdf_tutorials were released. dpkg-query -W ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials 0.1.2-s1374436389~precise dpkg-query -L ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials …bunches of files /opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/urdf.vcg …bunches […]