Two ROS 2 Robots Are Alive Again!

TB5-WaLI has been "alive" continuously for the last 18 months, but Dave has suffered six annual re-incarnations as new versions of ROS 2 and Ubuntu are released.

This year Dave's re-incarnation from "Kilted-Dave" was complicated by an improved #GoPiGo3 API installation into a #Python #VirtualEnvironment

I am feeling so happy after two weeks of updating and debugging to have Lyrical-Dave autonomously "fully alive" again.

#ROS2_LyricalLuth #Robot

@cyclical_obsessive The
"improved #GoPiGo3 API installation" was supposed to help.

@CleoQc > "improved #GoPiGo3 API installation" was supposed to help.

Believe me, it will help...next year. The pain was always deferred to make the default ROS build play nice with Python.

Lyrical-Dave and all my test programs:
Type Lines
.cpp 108
.sh 2787
.py 21689
.md 2176
.txt 754
.yaml 3864

Total Lines: 31,378

About 1k lines needed to be changed manually. Maybe another 1k lines of sed substitutions were possible for whole dirs.

+Two 10 minute Claude sessions