Since its first debut three years ago, ROS has been gaining some popularity with the robotics folks. It’s behind the scenes of those impressive quadcopters you may remember from a while back. ROS helps abstract the lower level functions of a robot by supplying lots of code for commonly used components (wiimote for example). Being an “operating system” it comes with lots of nice features you would expect, like a package manager. It’s open source and many of their projects are well documented making it easy get started.
Check out the video after the break to see it in action
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Those turtles are so CUTE!
*Sigh* why didn’t i study robotics instead of web design.
@Elrinn – It’s not too late. Make up for lost time. And hell, that’s what hobbyist robotics are for. People like us.
Awesome robotics.
Also, ‘sup Hirudinea.