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I’ve been advocating in several past posts for the use of LXD as a virtual development environment - see for instance “Setting up ROS 2 Jazzy with LXD”. But when setting up such environment for ROS 2, we find ourselves downloading hundreds of packages which may take some times.

ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco is out! ROS 2 Release Team did it again, shipping a brand new ROS 2 LTS distro. The latest release is named Jazzy Jalisco, a fine name given that the latest ROSCon (2023) was held in New Orleans!

In this post, we will see how to launch a Linux container that is isolated, not only from other containers, but also from the local network. The container will however have access to internet.

Historically ROS has been developed on top of Ubuntu, relying on the distribution as a stable base providing tools (like GCC, CMake, Python to name a few) and libraries (such as Boost, Eigen, PCL) and following its release cycle (a distribution per year, an LTS every two years).

ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill is out! Congratulations to Open Robotics and through them to the entire ROS 2 community. This is really quite an event as it marks an important milestone: it is the first 5 year LTS release for ROS 2.

In this post we will see how the Pi Pico can natively speak to a ROS2 graph using micro-ROS. We will set up a project in VSCode, compile and upload it to the microcontroller.

In this post we will see how to wire up an HC-SR04 range sensor to the Raspberry Pi Pico and publish its readings to the ROS 2 graph using micro-ROS. This builds upon the previous post ‘Getting started with micro-ROS on the Pi Pico’, as such I’d encourage you to read it first if you are not already familiar with the topic.

In this post we will discover the great magazines edited under the Raspberry Pi Press umbrella and discuss how to easily access them all. The Raspberry Pi Press magazines The Raspberry Pi Press is a part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the publisher of a great deal of magazines and books.

The 5th of June 2020 marks the release of ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy, a 3 years long-term support (LTS) release and the first ROS 2 distribution to target Ubuntu 20.04.

In this post, we will see how we can easily manage our personal configuration files - a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named after there common ~/.my_config form, you know, all of those small configuration files lying across our $HOME.