Re: [ROBCAR-ROS] Digest for roboticcar_ros@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

[Tim Craig]

JD,

You didn't specify so I'll assume you're using Fuerte.  I haven't had a chance to play with the tutorials since I upgrade to Fuerte but I heard some reports of people going back to earlier versions because they experienced problems in general.  Following that assumption, have you applied the upgrade released June 26?

On the informational side, at the last Homebrew Robotics SIG meeting, Patrick Goebel, PiRobot's human, said he is bundling some of his material on ROS into a book to be published on Lulu.com.  I just checked and it isn't there yet and I didn't get a chance to ask when he thought it would be ready.  Do you use the ROS forum on the Trossen Robotics website?  Mike Ferguson at least used to spend a lot of time answering questions on ROS there.  I haven't been there for a while so don't know if he's been able to keep up the pace since he moved to California and started working at Willow Garage.

Tim

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 Are there some very basic tutorials/examples of how to use ROS somewhere?

JD <jddor...@gmail.com> Jul 28 05:18AM -0700  

I've worked through a bunch of the tutorials on the ROS site. I made a
turtle move around and did some graphing. I still have no idea what I'm
doing though. Many of the examples I find don't work for some reason or
another. I think because they used an older version of ROS. So is there a
good example that walks through the whole set up for a robot? I found some
really good looking stuff on pirobot.org but I get about 2min into it
before I get more errors.


 

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[jescasany]

I totally agree with TimC. Things run OK on Fuerte, but when you try code developed by other people for other versions things don't run

[JD]

Thanks Tim, 

I'm using fuerte or at least trying to.  I do have a partition with Ubuntu 10.04 on it that I save for running some older software.  I think I might try and get a better handle on ROS using an the older version on 10.04.  Then I can upgrade once I know what's going on.  

The Trossen Robotics forum looks very useful, I hadn't seen it yet.  After doing a bit more reading I've been reassured that getting over the beginner learning curve is worth all the work.  

On Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:14:22 PM UTC-4, Tim Craig wrote:

JD,

You didn't specify so I'll assume you're using Fuerte.  I haven't had a chance to play with the tutorials since I upgrade to Fuerte but I heard some reports of people going back to earlier versions because they experienced problems in general.  Following that assumption, have you applied the upgrade released June 26?

On the informational side, at the last Homebrew Robotics SIG meeting, Patrick Goebel, PiRobot's human, said he is bundling some of his material on ROS into a book to be published on Lulu.com.  I just checked and it isn't there yet and I didn't get a chance to ask when he thought it would be ready.  Do you use the ROS forum on the Trossen Robotics website?  Mike Ferguson at least used to spend a lot of time answering questions on ROS there.  I haven't been there for a while so don't know if he's been able to keep up the pace since he moved to California and started working at Willow Garage.

Tim