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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Core"

Kyle Fazzari
27 April 2017

ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In this post, we’re going to work toward an Ubuntu Core image by creating what’s called a gadget snap. A gadget snap contains information such as ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

Internet of Things Article

Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of years of evolution in the industrial space especially. However traditional standardisation processes and proprietary implementations have been the norm. But the slow nature of their ...

Kyle Fazzari
21 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that prototype as a snap. For justifications behind why we’re doing this, please see the first post in the series. We know from the previous post ...

Guest
19 April 2017

FTC and D-Link

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact [email protected] Anyone who doubts that governments are closing in on hardware vendors in a bid to shut down IoT security vulnerabilities needs to catch up with the Federal Trade Commission’s recent lawsuit again ...

Canonical
13 April 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

Canonical announcements News

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the Ubuntu community ...

Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In this post we’ll be on classic Ubuntu, creating the example ROS prototype that we’ll use throughout the rest of the series as we work toward using ...

Maarten Ectors
10 April 2017

The smartest industry 4.0 crane

Internet of Things Article

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult them to be the leader of industry 4.0. If you don’t have an OT background, you aren’t relevant. I tend to disagree. We don’t need yet another CloudFoundry, Hadoop, Time ...

Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical please visit https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs. My background is pretty heavily littered with robotics. A natural side effect of this is that I’ve published numerous posts discussing ...

Guest
29 March 2017

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] Some time ago I got vaguely interested into photogrammetry, that is the reconstruction of a 3D model out of a set of plain 2D photographs. I just thought that it was ...

Guest
28 March 2017

Battlestar solution

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact [email protected] Forecasts suggest that by 2020, 20bn to 30bn IoT devices will be connected to networks worldwide. Almost certainly, the tactics employed by Colonel Saul Tigh in this clip from episode 201 of Batt ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
27 March 2017

Putting Ubuntu in embedded

Internet of Things Article

This year Canonical joined Embedded World 2017 for the first time with a booth. And the initial reaction from anyone visiting the booth was one of surprise quickly followed by the question: ‘Ubuntu is what I run on my desktop, not on my embedded systems. Why is Ubuntu at an embedded show?’ First of all ...

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