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Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft"

gbeuzeboc
25 September 2024

TurtleBot3 OpenCR firmware update from a snap

IoT Article

The TurtleBot3 robot is a standard platform robot in the ROS community, and it’s a reference that Canonical knows well, since we’ve used it in our tutorials. As a matter of fact, we use it to demonstrate some of our work, such as distributing a ROS stack through snaps. This robot embeds two boards, a ...

Igor Ljubuncic
16 June 2023

Snapcraft 8.0 and the respectable end of core18

Ubuntu Article

‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This base is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is software processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s ...

gbeuzeboc
15 June 2023

ROS architectures with snaps

Robotics Article

Choosing the right architecture can be hard, but we want to help. In this blog, we’ll look at different architectures and their pros and cons. We’ll also show you how to apply the chosen architecture to a mobile robot software stack with three essential apps. With this blogpost, we will see the different ROS architectures ...

gbeuzeboc
27 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 6

Robotics Article

Welcome to Part 6 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 5. This sixth and final part will  summarise every optimisation that we did. We will provide a critique for every optimisation that we tried along this series of blogs. Finally, we have reached the last part of this ...

gbeuzeboc
24 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 5

Robotics Article

Welcome to Part 5 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 4. This fifth part is going to cover two different optimisations. The first one, covers the compression algorithm. The second one, is about implementing extremely risky but efficient file deletion. We are going to present two completely different ...

gbeuzeboc
21 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 4

Robotics Article

Welcome to Part 4 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 3 before. This fourth part is going to explain what dynamic library caching is. We will present how to use it to optimise ROS snaps, along with the different points to be careful about. Finally, we will apply ...

gbeuzeboc
17 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 3

Robotics Article

Welcome to Part 3 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 2. This third part is going to present safe optimisations consisting of removing duplicates and unnecessary files. We will present three different methods as well as their cumulative benefits for the performance of ROS snaps. When snaps are ...

gbeuzeboc
11 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 2

Robotics Article

Welcome to Part 2 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 1 before reading this blog post. This second part is going to present initial optimisations already used in the Gazebo snap. We will present the benefit that they could bring to our ROS snaps as well as the ...

gbeuzeboc
6 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 1

Robotics Article

Do you want to optimise the performance of your ROS snap? We reduced the size of the installed Gazebo snap by 95%! This is how you can do it for your snap. Welcome to Part 1 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. This series of 6 blogs will show the tools and methodologies ...

Igor Ljubuncic
21 March 2023

Craft team welcomes you to another episode of its adventures

Ubuntu Article

Welcome to the second article in the Craft team saga. Previously, on Craft Team, we gave you a brief introduction into the team’s function, we announced our desire to share the ins and outs of our day-to-day work with the community, and gave you an overview of roughly two weeks of coding and fun. Today, ...

Igor Ljubuncic
16 December 2022

Snapcrafters: 2022 wrap-up

Community Article

This article was written by Merlijn Sebrechts and Dani Llewellyn from the Snapcrafters community. ===== Last year, we officially re-launched the “Snapcrafters” initiative. We’re a community of volunteers who build and maintain unofficial snap packages. Although snaps make it easy for developers to publish their software directly to users, ...

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