Hey Andreas, we haven’t tried interfacing BrickPi through ROS yet. But it sounds like an awesome project, and we’d lvoe to hear more about it. I think we’ve seen issues with Ubuntu being able to read and write over serial; hav eyou tried integrating the Ubuntu image with any serial sensors? Best, John
Hey Andreas, that’s right. Both Atmegas are interfaced over serial/UART connection. And that’s right, you should in theory be able to use the existing code, you’ll just need to figure out how your programming language talks over python and make those adjustments. We haven’t had any success with Ubunutu, but we haven’t dug too deep on the subject.
Installing the driver: no, you won’t need to do that from our perspective. YOu may need to make some changes to Ubuntu to get it to talk over serial though.
I’m a newbie, so forgive me if I I’m saying something stupid… Just ordered a Brickpi and I wouldn’t mind playing with ROS in the future, so this interests me.
Can’t ROS be installed on top of Raspbian for Robot? RfRobots is based on Raspbian Jessie, right? I see installation instructions for ROS on Jessie. Wouldn’t that solve those serial/UART issues?