Installation of ROS (Robot Operating System) on Raspberry Pi 3 for the DiddyBorg

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Submitted by Shixo87 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 08:45

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Hi,

We bought the DiddyBorg rover robot with Raspberry Pi 3. We need to install ROS on the Raspberry to be able to integrate with other teams using it for drones. Can ROS be installed on the DiddyBorg? Is it going to affect the PiBorg Reverse software?

Kind Regards,

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piborg

Fri, 04/01/2016 - 10:56

The short answer is that we do not have any software support for DiddyBorg using ROS.

It does sound like it would be possible to get ROS to work, but it would require writing some code to do it.
The PicoBorg Reverse works with I2C signals to get instructions from the Raspberry Pi.

Having a quick look on the ROS forums it looks like there is some I2C support:
http://answers.ros.org/question/74008/using-i2c-with-bcm2835-driver-on-t...

What you would have to do is send the correct I2C messages to command the PicoBorg Reverse.
The messages sent by our software are all contained in PicoBorgRev.py.
Alternatively the Arduino example code may be easier to read:
https://www.piborg.org/downloads/picoborgrev/PicoBorgRevArduino.zip

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