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XRP-4 BOM (WIP) 100% open hardware

1x XRP Open hardware XRP PCB
1x Motor & components holder PCB (Untested WIP just register and one click order from JLPCB if you’re feeling brave)
1x 1mm > 1.5mm Pack of cables
1x Pack of 1mm 6p JST SH connectors
1x Pack of 1.5mm 6P JST ZH connectors
4x 6v 150RPM Bringsmart motors
4x N20 rubber wheels or 3mm shaft Mecanum wheels A,B or C
4x N20 mounts
1x pack 18mm female standoffs
1x pack M3 x 6mm screw
1x Battery cable
1X 9v Battery

Or alternately a upgraded or 18650 battery or open hardware 18650 battery

Additional components

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How to run this bot with ROS2 (WIP)

Install Virtualbox
Download the OVA file (work in progress) and load it in Virtualbox. ~6Gb ~5hr download.
Start the virtual machine (password is ros2)
In the linux desktop Open VScode
If using a ESP3 configure platformio.ini to match, defaults to PicoW.
Build the firmware and flash to your device.
Put the device in your robot car & start it
Search the network for your-robot-ip using AngryIP
Launch ROS2
Open http://your-robot-ip:8888/ in a browser and control the car
Have fun

Other PicoW or ESP32 cars

Edurob not yet available for sale
Wukong 2040 no encoders, closed hardware
ESP cam car, no encoders, closed hardware

Notes on software installed on the Ubuntu 22.04 Virtualbox image, or compute module

apt-get update

sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades

sudo apt install lubuntu-desktop thonny nemo chromium

mkdir install

cd install

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linorobot/ros2me/master/install

./install

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linorobot/linorobot2/humble/install_linorobot2.bash

bash install_linorobot2.bash

install https://code.visualstudio.com/

Install platformio

Install vscode extensions c/c++ & platformio manually “code –install-extension myextension.vsix

git config –system core.longpaths true

git clone https://github.com/rosmo-robot/linorobot2_hardware_ESP32_Pico -b $ROS_DISTRO

Angryip?

Rosboard fork

Objectives

Get at strong foundation in open-source electronics and prototyping
Gain intuition on mechanical prototyping and design with dc brush motors, servo motors and stepper motors
Apply basic machine learning and computer vision to a small project

Older notes on robotics education

Derived from work by Mithi 🐳 ☕️

1) Microblocks

Microblocks

2) Micropython

Explaining computers

3) Arduino

Smartcar Projects from 2019, 2020 2021

4) Python

Pyrobots eg Test document
Example project connected to Smartcar Microcontroller
Autonomous Robotics - ENPM 809T
Python Robotics

5) ROS2

Stem robots

Xiaogui Fluffbug

Further Courses

♥️ Robot Academy, Peter Corke, Queensland University of Technology
MIT Open Courseware: Robotics
Coursera: Robotics Specialization, University of Pennsylvania
Coursera: Modern Robotics Specialization book + 📺 channel, Northwestern University
Coursera: Self-Driving Cars, University of Toronto
:dollar: Udacity: Robotics Nanodegree
:dollar: Udacity: Intro to Self-Driving Cars Nanodegree
:dollar: Udacity: Self-Driving Car Nanodegree
:dollar: Udacity: Flying Car Nanodegree
:dollar: Udacity: Sensor Fusion Nanodegree
:dollar: The Construct: Robotics Developers Course Library, Robot Ignite Academy
:dollar: Master’s Certification Program in Autonomous Vehicles, Skill Lync

Single Courses

Udacity: Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, Sebastian Thrun
EdX: Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown, ETHzurich
EdX: Autonomous Mobile Robots, ETHZurich
EdX: Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots, Technische Universitat Munchen
EdX: Underactuated Robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EdX: Robotics, Columbia University in the city of New York
EdX: Robot Mechanics and Control Part I and Part II, Seoul National University
EdX: Robotics Foundations I - Robot Modeling, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
EdX: Robotics Foundation II - Robot Control, Bruno Siciliano, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
EdX: Robot Development, Angelo Cangelosi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
EdX: Hello (Real) World with ROS – Robot Operating System, Delft University of Technology
Udemy: ROS for Beginners: Basics, Motion and OpenCV, Anish Koubaa
Udemy: ROS for Beginners II: Localization, Navigation and SLAM, Anish Koubaa
Self-Driving Cars with ROS and Autoware, Apex.AI
Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Wolfram Burgard et al, University of Freiburg
Introduction to Robotics, Oussama Khatib, Stanford Engineering Everywhere
Introduction to Aerial Robotics, Kostas Alexis, University of Nevada
Deep-learning for Self-Driving Cars, Lex Fridman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advanced Robotics (CS 287), Pieter Abbeel, University of California at Berkeley
♥️ Underactuated Robotics book + 📺 channel, Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robotics Manipulation: Perception, Planning, and Control + 📺 channel, Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visual Navigation for Flying Robot, Jürgen Sturm, Technical University of Munich
📺 SLAM playlist, Cyrill Stachniss, University of Freiburg
📺 Robotics I, De Luca, Universita di Roma
📺 SLAM Lectures, Clause Brenne, Leibniz University Hannover
📺 Applied Robot Design (CS235), Reuben Brewer, Standford University
Robogrok: Robotics + 📺 channel, Angela Sodemann
Autonomous Robots Lab: Autonomous Mobile Robot Design (and more), University of Nevada
MEAM 620: Robotics, University of Pennsylvania
Robotics: Advanced Concepts and Analysis, Ashitava Ghosal, Indian Institute of Science
Introduction to Robotics, Burton Ma, York University
NPTEL: Introduction to Robotics, IIT Madras
CMSC828T Vision, Planning And Control In Aerial Robotics, Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland
HKUST ELEC5660 Introduction to Aerial Robots, Shaojie SHEN, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
ENAE 788M: Hands On Autonomous Aerial Robotics, Nitin Sanket, University of Maryland
📺 Evolutionary robotics, Josh Bongard, University of Vermont
Programming for Robotics - ROS, Edo Jelavić, Tom Lankhorst, Marco Hutter, ETHZurich

Useful Concepts and Tools

CAD Tools: Autodesk Fusion 360 OnShape
♥️ 🐳 Deep Learning
Hackertools: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education, MIT Open Learning
Kalman Filters: Roger R. Labbe Balzer82
Control Systems: 📺 Steve Brunton 📺 Brian Douglas Tyler Veness
Algorithms and Data Structures, C++, Python, Octave
♥️ More courses

Top 100 universities

Archived Courses

EdX: Robotics: Locomotion Engineering, Dan Koditschek, University of Pennsylvania
EdX: Robotics: Dynamics and Control, Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
EdX: Robotics: Vision Intelligence and Machine Learning, Jianbo Shi, University of Pennsylvania
EdX: Robotics: Kinematics and Mathematical Foundations, Camillo Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Coursera: Control of Mobile Robots, Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of technology

Misc

UK undergraduate