Five Things You Need Before Starting With ROS | Getting Ready to Build Robots with ROS #1

In this video we cover the five things you need before you can start developing robots with ROS.
This video is the first in a series of tutorials on setting up your ROS development environment.

00:00 - Intro
00:58 - #1 The Right Skills
01:48 - #2 The Right Hardware
04:47 - #3 The Right Operating System
05:41 - #4 Other Useful Software
07:05 - #5 Other Useful Tools
07:44 - One Last Thing...

Raspberry Pi 4 Image by SparkFun, licensed under CC BY 2.0
Laptop Image by Tymon Oziemblewski from Pixabay

[hamishmcfarlane]

This is just the video I was looking for. Thank you

[devin.n]

I really enjoyed this video. Clear, concise and to the point. You got my sub.

[andrewbennett]

I really hope that your 3.12K subscribers turns into 312K subscribers. Your videos and the information within are equally high quality, thanks for doing what you do!

[manishnayak]

It takes a lot for me to subscribe to any particular channel, even if I really like the videos. But I can see the long-term potential of great videos coming ahead and I am just excited by how clearly you have explained the various sections of ROS! Thanks for the content. No level of documentation can match this.

[Me--SaifAli]

Really helpful please upload more videos

[waynefilkins]

I'm looking to build something with multiple microcontrollers, possibly a jetson nano and several pi zero 2w's, several batteries powering several DC motors, but the batteries will probably be like 1 per pi zero, and otherwise they don't need to be linked or anything. They are just there to power the DC motors mostly. Could do 1 battery for all the pi zero's, or maybe run them off each battery running their DC motors idk yet. Anyway I'm creating my own linear actuators out of dc motors and probably those little z-stop switches. There will also be a LOT of sensors. I want to basically be able to use the sensors to turn the motor one way, or the other, but then it stops when it hits the z limit switch. I don't know much about this stuff...I'm aware of the hardware out there and what I want to do, but otherwise I don't know how to plan or execute a project like this. Would this be a good series? Or what other learning materials would you recommend to get good enough to do something like this?

[tronic]

Dispuesto a aprender. Gracias! Sería muy útil contar con los subtítulos en ingles para poder captar todo lo que dices.

[waynefilkins]

What if I want it to run mobile without my laptop around? Can I do part of the ros stuff on the pi? I don't mind doing the programming and all that on the computer, but when I'm done I want to be able to go completely mobile like take the robot to a friend's without the pc with me.

[premprasad]

Can I do the development on Raspberry Pi 4 as well ?

[ozgurcaglayan]

sorry ı dont now so much englısh words and, ı used subtitle everytime :), please when ı was learn(very much learn) this language, you add subtitle for video series :) thanks so much. I like your projects. (Thanks from Turkey)

[davidfarning]

I just came across your series Apr 26 2022. The test packages for ROS Humble LTS just came out so I thought I would see how the series builds on ubuntu 22.04 with ROS Humble as a first project on Jammy. My RPI4 only has 2GB so I might have to do a little pruning to make things fit. I'll keep you updated.

[daniellizarazo]

Can the on board computer be an ESP32?

[marvetoons]

Thanks for the video.

Please can I use an Arduino una board or an ESP32 chip instead of the Raspberry 4 you talked about

[deepshah]

Do we have to install the server or the core version of Ubuntu 20.04 on the rpi?

[sayedmaasirjahangir]

Is it all the time required to connect my pc(dev machine) with rasPi all the time. If not so how could i do that.

[gonzalezharilantoandriniri]

Thanks you for the video. I have one question: Should we install the Ubuntu MATE Operating System on both the Raspberry Pi and the base station laptop?

[gauravdas]

Can we use ESP32 instead of of the Pi since we just need to pass sensor data?

[yingkailee]

Hi, thanks for creating these tutorial videos! Would you also happen to know if I would encounter any complicated issues during these videos if I were to go with the latest versions of ros2 (humble + ubuntu 22.04) other than maybe just switching the name of what ros i'm using when writing commands?

[geoechidna]

Very interesting! Why does it need to be the 64-bit version of the OS though?

[joris]

thanks for the very nice vids. I however, do have an unrelated question: how did you add the text DEV MACHINE to the wallpaper/background??