Pretty interesting. The Turtlebot 4 educational robot also uses this approach to power/ethernet interface the Pi 4 and the microROS controllers that run on the roomba. Before seeing that a while back I would've never imagined it possible.
Ha yes, definitely better in that regard. Also they now have a lidar too so navigation is trivial, but the M0 controllers and the Pi 4 are all really underpowered for ROS 2 so... there are still various issues lol.
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Pretty interesting. The Turtlebot 4 educational robot also uses this approach to power/ethernet interface the Pi 4 and the microROS controllers that run on the roomba. Before seeing that a while back I would've never imagined it possible.
Sounds much better than what they used to do which was glue an eePC to a roomba via a terrifying number of dongles
Ha yes, definitely better in that regard. Also they now have a lidar too so navigation is trivial, but the M0 controllers and the Pi 4 are all really underpowered for ROS 2 so... there are still various issues lol.