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If You Don’t Have Your Robot Yet

The UbiquityRobotics robots are controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3. If you have one of these (especially if you have a camera for it), there are numerous things you can profitably do by running the Ubiquity software on your Pi. It is as though you were running a robot with no motors.

• You can install the Ubiquity software image. The image may be downloaded from the Ubiquity Robotics web site. Burn it to a mini SD card and boot it up on your Raspberry Pi.

• You can install our virtual machine on your workstation. It can be downloaded from the Ubiquity Robotics site. It has ROS already installed.

–or, if you have a machine running Ubuntu 16.04 –

• You can set up ROS on your workstation. The ROS site gives full instructions.

• You can connect the Pi to your workstation directly. See the instructions in the Quick Start section.

• You can connect the Pi to your local network. See the instructions in the Doing More section.

• You can print fiducials and post them. You can then recognize fiducials using the camera. See the instructions in the Doing More section.

• You can follow the Pi using Rviz and rqt_image_view on your workstation. See the instructions in the Doing More section.