February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 50m
English
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Setting up the GoPiGo3 development environment
In the previous chapter, you tried the ROS desktop version in the Raspberry Pi of GoPiGo3. For a serious development strategy, you should launch the minimum configuration of the application in the robot and launch all the accompanying development tasks within the laptop.
Remember that in Chapter 3, Getting Started with ROS, you run ROS on your laptop. Hence, the robot application itself was executed in such an environment, with no possibility to move a physical robot since we didn't establish a connection outside of the computer.
In this section, you will learn how to work simultaneously with the laptop and Raspberry Pi ROS environments when they're linked, that is, the Raspberry Pi controlling ...