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Jul 20

Introducing AirSim-js

Recently I released AirSim-js, an open-source Nodejs client for AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation). In this article I’ll introduce you to the cool AirSim environment and how to programmatically drive a car within AirSim using TypeScript and the AirSim-js package. Background If you’re new to AirSim, it’s an open-source 3D…

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Feb 11

Introducing The rclnodejs-cli Tools for ROS 2 JavaScript Coders

For developers interested in implementing ROS 2 solutions using JavaScript or TypeScript, the rclnodejs package (ROS client library nodejs) provides a complete Nodejs JavaScript binding and TypeScript declarations to the ROS 2 API. A companion Nodejs package rclnodejs-cli, was released last year to provide commandline tools to help when using…

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Introducing The rclnodejs-cli Tools for ROS 2 JavaScript Coders

Jun 30, 2021

Visualize Robot Status Using a Programmable blink(1) RGB LED

This article introduces the programmable blink(1) USB RGB LED and develops a simple cross platform TypeScript/Nodejs program that can be used to visually communicating a robot’s state on a microcontroller such as the Raspberry Pi. Recently I began developing a small self balancing robot powered by a Raspberry Pi 4…

Blink 1

6 min read

Jun 23, 2020

5: ROS 2 Version of Conway’s Game of Life in TypeScript

Implement Conway’s Game of Life using ROS 2 OccupancyMap and rviz2 for visualization. As a fun project to help me get familiar with the ROS 2 OccupancyMap message, I coded up Conway’s Game of Life algorithm using an OccupancyMap to model the cellular automaton world. …

Ros 2

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Jun 19, 2020

4: Data Visualization Using ROS 2 rviz2 and Pub-Sub Communications

Simulate, publish and visualize ROS 2 LIDAR sensor data using TypeScript. Edited 20220211 — expanded Nodejs version prerequisites to v10.22–17.x In this tutorial we get closer to a real world scenario as we learn about ROS message interfaces, in particular the LaserScan sensor message, and how to create and publish…

Robots

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4: Data Visualization Using ROS 2 rviz2, Pub-Sub Communications and JavaScript/TypeScript

Jun 14, 2020

3: Creating a ROS 2 Pub-Sub Subscription using TypeScript

In this tutorial, we implement a ROS 2 subscription using TypeScript and learn to use the ros2 topic CLI tool for listening in on and testing pub-sub communications. edited 20220211 — upgraded to use NodeJS 16 In tutorial #2 we learned about ROS 2’s publish-subscribe communication mode and how to…

Ros 2

5 min read

Jun 11, 2020

2: Our 1st ROS 2 TypeScript Program

Join along as we develop a high level introduction of ROS while coding up our first ROS2 JavaScript program, a simple ROS node that sends ‘hello world’ messages using a Twitter style publish-subscribe model. edited 20220211 — updated to use NodeJS 16, TypeScript 4.5 & rclnodejs-cli ROS 2 Conceptual Overview ROS 2 is a…

Ros 2

6 min read

Jun 5, 2020

1: Setup A ROS 2 JavaScript Robot Coding Environment

While coding robots can be fun, setting up a robot coding environment can sort of be a pain. In this article we layout the software bits you’ll need. …

Ros 2

4 min read

Jun 5, 2020

0: robot.publish(‘hello world’)

Hello and thanks for stopping by. I’m Wayne and you’ll find my ROS 2 For JavaScript Developers articles and projects here. Browse around and share feedback as you feel led. Why use JavaScript to code robots? The short honest answer is, intuition and fun. Coding robots using JavaScript is enjoyable to me at this time. Generally…

Ros 2

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