Introduction After a number of years hosting my personal site on WordPress I’ve decided to move off the platform. In this blog post I’ll describe some of the reasons why for those who are curious....

My SFF(ish) Custom PC Last year (Summer 2019) I decided to use some bonus money from work to finally build myself a custom PC. I’d wanted one for a while since building my first PC ...

Introduction This post is a tutorial on how to set up a working ROS development environment within Windows (complete with GUI support) utilizing the new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). I wro...

Create .bashrc files for Command Prompt and PowerShell in Windows As someone who uses Linux a lot as my development workflow I’ve gotten used to the great power and flexibility of .bashrc files. I...

As you can probably tell from my previous posts, I spend a lot of time developing in WSL. In addition to this, I use VS Code as my main text editor/IDE and love it. It’s such a great editor with a ...

This post has been a long time coming. If you’ve read some of my other tutorials you’ll notice that those development posts have all been helpful in getting to this point. In this post I’ll cover h...

In this post I’ll walk through how to get the RealSense SDK up and running on the ODROID-XU4. This might seem trivial at first, but the steps can be a bit confusing. For this tutorial I’ll assume ...

In another post, I wrote about setting up a ROS development environment within Windows using WSL. Since then, I’ve had a few people ask me about setting up the same system except using Docker. This...

UPDATE This post is now deprecated with the public launch of WSL2. I have a new post documenting how to do this same set up with WSL2. Check it out over here. NOTE: If you are not running Windows...

Introduction I am in the process of creating a customized version of an OMPL planner that uses a personalized costmap to help robots learn to move around people in a more comfortable way. In order...