OpenInterface for Arduino – create without a Create

Having spent a couple of weeks playing with ROS on and off and getting robot vision, speech and a couple of other robot basics working a basic thought struck me.

Why don’t I look at the basic robots provided by ROS and see if it’s easier to reverse engineer them?

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Getting Sound to work on ROS

I was following the ROS.org wiki on trying to setup sound for it’s not immediately obvious to a n00b how to do this.

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First experiences using ROS

I’ve been doing a stock take of what robotics components I have available. I think now I should bite the bullet and go for the build of my Omnibot based robot.

These are the steps I took to setup a VMWare image ready to run ROS.

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Charities, trading arms and CICs (oh my!)

This evening the Great Ashby Community Centre Management Association (the charity of which I am a trustee and treasurer) had a meeting with Sara the CIC Regulator to discuss with us whether we should set up a CIC as part of our extension to the Community Centre.

This post is a bit of a memory dump after the meeting whilst it’s still fresh. Not all of the points have been validated/or referenced, so I may follow up when I know more.

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Using Jenkins for PHP CI

After a while of being completely absorbed in my (paid) work for the last six months or so, I’ve decided to kick back and revisit some old projects.

Before I get started I thought I ought to refresh my CI setup.

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