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).

As someone who uses Linux a lot as my development workflow I’ve gotten used to the great power and flexibility of .bashrc files. This post shows two ways to get this functionality in PowerShell.

While the basic WSL shell is alright, I recently found out about Powerline which basically adds a ton of visual aids and customization to your terminal. This post shows how I set it up in WSL.

In this post I’ll cover how to setup OMPL with a custom optimization objective that reaches out to the ROS stack for its cost function.

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.

In another post, I wrote about setting up a ROS development environment within Windows using WSL. This post is about doing the same except using Docker.

I needed a development environment that included ROS, OMPL, and MoveIt!. This post walks through how to set this environment up.

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.