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The DPRG held its March meeting at the Dallas Makerspace this Saturday Mar 28 at 10AM. There will be a buzzer on the door to admit attendees to the Makerspace. All are welcome to attend the meeting.
The meeting will featured a talk by the creator of the Maker’s Pet robot kit, Ilia Olysiannikov. The Maker’s Pet is an inexpensive differential-drive robot with lidar and turn-key ROS2 software. It can map its environment using the ROS2 SLAM package and navigate within the generated map.
Turn-key” and “ROS2” aren’t usually used together (though often promised), but thanks to the innovative use of docker containers and excellent build/operate videos and documentation, this robot is super-easy to get going and make maps and navigate flexibly within them. Several DPRG members have built this robot. In fact, this post’s featured image is a photo of Mark R.’s robot.
Additional details for the Maker’s Pet robot kit can be found at https://makerspet.com/.
Pizza was served at Noon.