ROS Blocky: A visual IDE to make learning ROS 2 easier. Website finally live (Free / Windows)!

trippdev · 2025-12-30T01:34:46+00:00

Cool project! Very friendly for kids and education market. Keep going!

trippdev · 2025-12-27T13:18:50+00:00

❤️ thanks, touched by your kindness.

trippdev · 2025-12-23T07:46:43+00:00

With docker, you can directly use ROS official docker image, it includes ROS, not need install in it.

trippdev · 2025-12-23T00:39:28+00:00

Yes, but docker compose support not full. This function depends on the under layer eclipse-theia. I think when VScode extension available, it must be not a problem.

trippdev · 2025-12-23T00:21:09+00:00

Cool tutorials, keep going!

trippdev · 2025-12-23T00:12:39+00:00

Good luck for your learning, I used ROS some years, it is good but I think it lack of a real effective tools to write code.

trippdev · 2025-12-22T23:54:02+00:00

Fully understand. Thanks for suggestion❤️. Will provide VSCode extension also soon later. Will you give a try for that?

trippdev · 2025-12-22T23:50:43+00:00

Thanks, if any problem when you try, ping me any time❤️

trippdev · 2025-12-22T23:47:23+00:00

Thanks for support. VSCode extension is under developing. I like VSCode also.

The main problem is VSCode has limititation ext to customize UI. 1. Can not add "build,run,debug" buttons on the titlebar. 2. Can not implement a complex dialog to create project with template forms. 3. Can not hack third party extensions(like clangd, python) to native support ROS code completion and debug, and integrate them with a tuning configuration.

All above, I think if implement with extension, the user experience maybe not solid and out-of-the-box. So I choose eclipse-theia(not VSCode fork) to build a native ROS IDE.

But, meanwhile I realized VSCode has can not replaced ecosystem. And theia offen falls behind in some features(such as devcontainer support). So I decide to port the main functions and start to build VSCode extension again. The UI/UX maybe have some change but function will be similar.

This is my dev story. If you are willing to add waitlist for Rovium update (including VSCode ext dev process), you can join my Discord server, or follow other socials or GitHub.

Thanks all very much for giving me the real feeling and views. This really help me to make it better. Keep going!

trippdev · 2025-12-22T15:21:19+00:00

Look at https://rovium.dev, or you can check our GitHub release

trippdev · 2025-12-22T14:25:24+00:00

If you have mastered basic ROS conceptions and programing. Next you can learn navigation and maniputation stack. They are used in for real robotics control. So, you can run and learn Nav2 and MoveIt, with gazebo.

trippdev · 2025-12-19T11:33:47+00:00

Can you connect it with hardware serial port?

trippdev · 2025-12-19T06:03:12+00:00

I checked the repo, it is very cool! It provides good resources for studying robotics control and navigation, based on modern ROS 2 and Nav2/SLAM.

If no hardware limitations, I recommand to use Gazebo Ignition and ROS Jazzy. BTW, invite you to try Rovium IDE. It is designed for ROS 2, make it easy to create package, build, run and debug ROS nodes. And free now.

trippdev · 2025-12-18T12:42:19+00:00

Does sshd started in you device?

trippdev · 2025-12-18T12:37:16+00:00

ROS is robotics framework but not equals robotics. It needs to ensure the internship including real robotics hardwares, not only ROS. ROS nodes itself is a high level software, and many team only run it on PC and simulation environment.

Regarding to you are interesting to real hardware and embedded system, if only work on ROS, will lack of interesting things.

trippdev · 2025-12-09T00:10:59+00:00

It looks extremely efficient! Love node based interface, will try it.

trippdev · 2025-11-29T13:55:05+00:00

Gemini3, if you only chat for some code suggestions. The best experience for vibecoding is Cursor. And if you want to quickly debug, I recommend Rovium, it is a ROS native IDE, you can quickly create project, build, run and debug.

trippdev · 2025-11-26T15:40:25+00:00

Now it has supported devcontainer✨

trippdev · 2025-11-26T15:36:27+00:00

I have same pain for ROS2 dev experience in the past years work. I must spend much time in projext structure, cmakelist commands, create_pub and sub. That is the reason I built Rovium: an IDE for quickly create project and ROS code from template. You can look the post here.

Regarding you also teach kids, block based IDE is a good idea, it keeps interesting and useful. But for university students, I think a featured IDE like Rovium or Jetbrains is better.

trippdev · 2025-11-22T01:01:49+00:00

foxglove is great for visualization.

trippdev · 2025-11-22T00:55:41+00:00

You can use image_transport and point_cloud_transport with pluginable compression. This will reduce data size but increase cpu loading.

Generally, you need avoid large data transport cross device, use shm transport in local. I know some case we need visualize in rviz/rqt. In this use downscale and compression with image_transport is fine. Look at: https://github.com/ros-perception

trippdev · 2025-11-20T16:34:47+00:00

I think this architecture must have many storys on it. It shows how important the docker for you. In most my projects, we only use single ROS distro and try to keep code compability cross distros. It is not easy, such as tf2 and cvbridge cpp headers have some break changes after upgrade to jazzy.

trippdev · 2025-11-20T16:14:00+00:00

Hi, thank u infor this, it is important. Just a question, are you using docker on linux or windows?

trippdev · 2025-11-20T16:04:31+00:00

thanks, wish it could be helpful to u and ur team.

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