Recently, I’ve been thinking about some good practices in robotics software development and realized that one of the most impactful is the one I learned early on. The lesson is: Build Toolkit(s).

Intro

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might have seen my earlier blog posts summarizing my experience as a Remote Robotics Consultant. In case you’d like to start from the beginning, here is the ordered list of my posts:

• One Year of Working as a Robotics Consultant
• Thoughts on 2 Years as a Remote Robotics Consultant
• Remote Robotics Consulting - 3.5 Years In
• Remote Robotics Consulting - A Five-Year Retrospective

In hindsight, there are some choices that I made that turned out suboptimal, but if I turned back time, I’m not sure if I would be able to make better decisions. Let’s see if there are some lessons to be learned!

Intro

This year, I paid my first visit to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting) and helped organize the Robotics and Simulation Devroom. This blog post summarizes my experience.

Intro

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might have seen my earlier blog posts summarizing my experience as a Remote Robotics Consultant. In case you’d like to start from the beginning, here is the ordered list:

• One Year of Working as a Robotics Consultant
• Thoughts on 2 Years as a Remote Robotics Consultant
• Remote Robotics Consulting - 3.5 Years In

In this blog post, I will highlight some of the updates since my last blog and offer some advice that I hope will be useful for anyone looking to get into technical consulting.

Strap in, and let’s go!

Earlier this year, I made a beginner’s course Build Mobile Robots with ROS2, that focuses on mobile robots. This blog post describes my experience and thought process when designing it.

While preparing my ROS2 course on mobile robots I was not able to find quality information about basic sensors that can be used for mobile robots and the most important considerations on using them. In this short blog post, I’ll discuss some of the issues I have come across while using IMUs and LiDARs in tens of robotics projects.

This is the third blog post in the series of posts summing up my experience working as a Robotics Consultant. My recent realisation is that I’ve been consulting for half my career now, so hopefully some of the things I’ve learnt along the way will help someone else out there.