ROS packages renamed according to a new name convention

With other people from Officine Robotiche we decided a new convention for the name of the packages used by ROS. Since today, the name of every package related to ROS will have the prefix “ros_“. In such a way it would be easiest to distinguish ROS packages from other generic…

Continue reading

MyzharBot is flying to San Jose to meet Nvidia

MyzharBot is flying with its friend 4UDE toward San Jose… GTC 2015 is going to start on Tuesday and the two robots can’t wait to wander through the Nvidia’s stand.

Continue reading

ROS: MyzharBot Virtual model and Asus Xtion Pro Live

MyzharBot model and RGB-D

I finally added Asus Xtion Pro Live to the virtual model of MyzharBot (not yet fully complete) in Rviz GUI. The result is the following To obtain this result you must run the following commands, every one in a different terminal: $ roslaunch ros_myzharbot_robot myzharbot.launch runs the “serial_bridge” node to…

Continue reading

MyzharBot has been chosen for iNemo challenge

Discovery M1

Today I received the confirmation by email that MyzhzrBot has been chosen to partecipate to the italian issue of the iNemo challenge. In a few days I will receive my iNemo Discovery M1 board. I received the board by the postman just when I was writing this post as you…

Continue reading

MyzharBot is getting “ears”

After the eyes, MyzharBot is going to get ears. The quad sonar module based on ARM STm32F4 mcu and HC-SR04 is almost ready. The first test using a single sensor connected to STm32F4Discovery board was a success… The quad sonar module will be used as obstacle sensor and to create…

Continue reading

A surprising email from Technofunding

Today I received this email from the CEO of Technofunding, he sent the email to everyone that has subscribed to Technofunding Platform website.
My name and my project, MyzharBot, reached thousands of people that love technology. I’m proud of it.

TechnoFunding email

TechnoFunding email