$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2

Re:$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2 by Jedd on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:21PM (#25393021)

This uses an ESP32 MCU.

A naive question -- does that mean if I picked up one of those cheap 2-wheel robot kits from ebay (that includes wheels, board, risers, but no MCU) for ~ A$20 -- I could, in theory, turn it into a ROS-capable system by somehow adding in an ESP32-on-a-board?

(I've got about as much experience / understanding of ROS as most of the other people asking questions on this thread : )

Being in Australia, that 'under $100' is far from it - and the pathway to cheap discovery with some basic robotics is moderately opaque.

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Re:$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2 by numpad0 on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:59PM (#25395706)

I think there’s a github repo that may or may not compile to make ESP32 talk ROS2 message protocols, and that would be the entirety of ROS2 that fits in an ESP32 anyway, so the answer is a yeah

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