I Created 3 ROS 2 Packages: One for LLM AI, Another for Visual Language Models, and another for Arduino Serial communication!

[Thomas Messerschmidt]

This has been a very productive week for me. I successfully built 3 ROS 2 packages: 

1. AI Chatbot: A ROS 2 package for LLM AI: GPT4All with Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct.Q4_0. (It works wonderfully, even on a laptop without a compatible GPU.)

2. Robot Vision (what's in the picture): A ROS 2 package for ollama with moondream 2.0 (It works, but it's slow on my laptop. I will try it with a gaming computer next week.)

3. ROS 2 to Arduino via Serial (USB): It works perfectly. I am able to send and receive data to and from any pin on the Arduino. Since rosserial was never updated for ROS 2, I took things into my own hands and made my own! (Yes Camp, we can add a ping sensor for the MockBOt to ROS 2 now.)

I will be uploading the code to my GitHub over the weekend! 

WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Next up: 

• A voice input package  (robots gotta take orders, right?)
• A voice output package  (robots gotta talk, right?)