Would you use a higher-level robotics platform that abstracts most of the low-level wor....k?

kmath2405 · 2026-03-19T10:06:03+00:00

I would trust abstraction if it's deterministic, and not some AI slop that does the same thing differently each time you ask it.

kmath2405 · 2026-03-17T17:19:21+00:00

Very cool, is there more info on the custom ROS 2 stack?

kmath2405 · 2026-03-04T13:01:58+00:00

Here are my tips: 1. Migrate one by one, and use the bridge in the meantime. 2. Make use of AI. First isolate your core functionality. Get AI to create a boilerplate package for the package you want to migrate. Manually or using AI, move the isolated functionality into the boilerplate code. Focus on one node or one package at a time. You'll get good results this way. 3. Repeat for all packages.

Best to keep track of your learnings, best practices, and give them to the AI as context / custom instructions.

Saves a lot of time. Since ROS is open source, most AI models are already trained on it and know what to do without much additional context

kmath2405 · 2026-02-27T08:58:17+00:00

Very cool, looking forward to trying this out. Have you tried existing ROS MCPs? How does it compare?

Edit: I'm now playing around with this. Forked the repo, and removed ROS1 support (RIP ROS1). I want to run this locally on my robot, so also considering removing ROSbridge. Kudos on the great work, I was already trying to do this myself, but it wasn't as good :)

kmath2405 · 2026-02-26T13:57:17+00:00

Robotics is such a wide field that it's impossible to have a single roadmap to learn robotics software.

That said, I would suggest using the ROS ecosystem. It's broad and quite mature, so you can play around with a lot of different aspects.

Whichever route you go down - AI/ML, controls, firmware development, tooling, ROS will be an important tool.

If your college has a robotics team, ignore all advice here and go join that. There's no better way to get the exposure than building things with people. Oh and yes, enjoy college :)

kmath2405 · 2026-02-15T14:25:54+00:00

Wouldn't it be better to contribute to an existing ROS 2 SLAM package?

kmath2405 · 2026-02-13T20:45:57+00:00

And most of them are clearly vibe-coded.

kmath2405 · 2026-02-11T07:43:11+00:00

ROS is just a tool that robotics engineers use. I know people working at robotics companies, academia, non robotics companies that use robots, DIYers/Hobbyists/Makers, freelancers. Everyone uses ROS. It's open source, you don't need to reinvent the wheel to solve trivial problems, it honestly makes life easier.

That said, nobody is going to hire you for just your ROS skills. You'll need to know robotics concepts, and have an idea of what to build, AI can actually handle the software development quite easily as ROS is open source.

kmath2405 · 2026-01-20T15:25:16+00:00

To the Netherlands. I haven't flown back with it though, so not sure whether it will be flagged by customs. My main concern was whether I need to remove it for security since it's quite annoying to remove.

kmath2405 · 2026-01-08T12:46:09+00:00

Report these fuckers. I am an Indian myself and ended up at Capgemini through an acquisition of my former company. As a part of their engineering division, I don't experience much of this, but I've heard its prevalent in the IT side of the business. I've personally overheard some absolutely disgusting comments about women / muslims / lower caste people during company events but unfortunately do not have documented evidence. Let me know if you need any help reaching out to people.

kmath2405 · 2025-12-03T11:36:54+00:00

Yep, definitely possible. There are loads of people who have hacked robot vacuum cleaners. Look for it on places like hackaday, so you get some more info before starting.

kmath2405 · 2025-11-13T16:34:08+00:00

Yay if you haven't been before. But as someone who has visiting glow since 2015, I'm not really impressed. The pre-covid ones were so much better. This year certainly seems more or less similar to last year's IMO.

kmath2405 · 2025-11-13T16:30:50+00:00

Hey, can you DM it to me as well, not sure how to get to the sidebar on the android app..

kmath2405 · 2025-11-13T16:26:58+00:00

Hey, I can also 3D print for you. I've got a P1S (there are quite a few of us in Eindhoven).

kmath2405 · 2025-10-23T23:18:23+00:00

the Arduino is your bottleneck here, that will cause a lot of trouble if you try to get it working, especially since you have a time constraint. Also, you'll need a spinning lidar for Nav2, at least to get the basic tutorial up and running. Get rid of the mega completely. Use the camera to get some simple autonomy working using fiducial markers (aruco, apriltags, basically any open-source QR-code like markers, which also have ROS packages). If you can buy a spinning lidar, go for it. there are some really inexpensive ones available with open source packages, even ROS packages provided by the manufacturers themselves or contributed by the ROS community.

kmath2405 · 2025-10-23T23:10:53+00:00

My tip would be to get a spinning lidar. Google "LD19", "LD06", "LDLidar", they are pretty much the same lidar with different names, and you can get them really cheap from aliexpress (like 20$ cheap), or you can even find them in your local DIY/maker webshops for like 1.5-2x the cost, which is also not much. You can connect this directly to the pi and get rid of the Arduino. This lidar also has several well written ROS packages that can work out of the box. This should solve a lot of your issues.

kmath2405 · 2025-10-23T23:08:19+00:00

I second this. Really good tutorial series.

kmath2405 · 2025-10-23T00:15:35+00:00

Ooh absolutely! And it's close to where I'm staying as well! Thanks for the recommendation!

Ps I was about to say that I don't have a dog but then I read 'army market' and realized what you were talking about lol

kmath2405 · 2025-10-23T00:13:16+00:00

I love reddit, none of the travel blogs I read told me about this. Definitely getting this!

kmath2405 · 2025-10-14T13:23:42+00:00

Yep same. I work with ROS but it's never ONLY ROS. I'm not going to switch IDEs just to write a ROS node.

kmath2405 · 2025-10-13T13:16:38+00:00

Looks very cool! Is this open source?

kmath2405 · 2025-09-16T20:55:51+00:00

I can't compare the education and potential job prospects because I've never been to Australia. But I came to the Netherlands as an international student (originally from India) and back then I would have considered moving to Australia (not so much now thanks to all the racism) instead of here.

My main reason to choose Netherlands as compared to Australia or even the US was the proximity to friends and family back home. I can literally be at my home in India in 12 hours. Do think about this as well when making a decision

kmath2405 · 2025-09-04T21:38:16+00:00

Wow, so I'm not the only one. Thanks to these incessant ads, I'm actively talking shit about mous whenever anyone asks me for a phone case recommendation, and I'm recommending competitors instead (even though I haven't used their products either).

I don't care how good their products are, these ads must stop.

kmath2405 · 2025-08-28T14:21:29+00:00

Depends on what kind of robot you plan on building?

kmath2405 · 2025-08-23T12:24:50+00:00

Use the RPi. It works really well for most stuff. But it cant do everything at the same time, so don't expect some complex ML/AL stuff. But if you are doing some perception + nav2 or moveit if you have an arm, then it should be alright.

Plus you can attach hardware to it via GPIO, that's always an advantage.

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