February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 50m
English
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Installing a Pi Camera ROS package
As part of the ROS installation, we should include software that will allow you to access the Pi Camera from ROS. The most used package is that from Ubiquity Robotics, and it is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/raspicam_node.
To install the package, we first need to have a ROS workspace and to have mastered some practical concepts for cloning and creating ROS packages. This installation will be accomplished later on in the chapter; you will find it in the Case study 2 – ROS GUI development tools – the Pi Camera globally.
Hence, let's proceed now to create a workspace and add the first package inside it.