polyhobbyist / jetbot

Hello! 👋

What is a Polyhobbyist? Well, it is someone who loves lots of hobbies. I’m a polyhobbyist, and you may be too! Professionally, I’m a Software Engineer where I work on ROS professionally, and I do robotics as a hobby – which means the fun never stops!

You know what they say, “Do what you love and you never work a day in your life”… (I wish that were true; some days…)

Robotics is the ultimate intersection of disciplines – Electronics and Mechanics (mechatronics), Computer Vision and AI, Machining, modeling, 3d printing – and more.

I’ve been a “Maker” for most of my life, although the culture either didn’t have a name – or more specifically had too many names… But it was a culture I identified with. So much so, I was able to work professionally as a Maker.

This website and associated youtube channel are hobbies as well.

I hope you enjoy what you see.

jetbot's Issues

Nit: install documentation broken

Documentation assumes you have already cloned repo, and the mkdir command won't work unless you alredy have a ws directory (which presumably you don't since the repo doesn't have one). suggested updates below

git clone https://github.com/polyhobbyist/jetbot
cd jetbot
mkdir -p ws/src
vcs import ws/src < jetbot.repos
sudo docker-compose -f Docker-compose.yaml up # sudo may not be necessary, depending on your configuration

nit: vcstool install requires ROS, so link is unhelpful

Minor documentation nit - vcstool requires ROS repos to install from a simple apt install call. Assuming those repos are specified then no big deal. However, it can be confusing since the linked VCStool page (the ROS one) implicitly assumes you already have the ros repos listed.

suggestion:
https://github.com/dirk-thomas/vcstool#how-to-install-vcstool is a better link.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list' sudo apt install curl # if you haven't already installed curl curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.asc | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3-vcstool