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.
Remote Robotics Consulting - A Five-Year Retrospective
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!
I Created a Project-based ROS2 Course
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.
IMUs and LiDARs - Not Uncommon Pitfalls
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.
Remote Robotics Consulting - 3.5 Years In
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.
Making a 3D mapping prototype with ROS
In my previous post I’ve shared some of my experience working with Septentrio Mosaic X-5 dev kits. After seeing some good results with that hardware I’ve decided to try to use them with some other hardware to realise a prototype that I had in mind for quite some years. In this post I’m going to describe what I did to get a first prototype working and share some tips for anyone who would like to replicate them.
Plug&Play RTK with Septentrio mosaic-X5 Dev Kit
Quite a while ago I’ve received two units of mosaic development kits from Septentrio. This blog posts sums up my experience with it and provides some insights into integrating these with ROS.