Setup instructions

Introduction

You can find the list of needed hardware pieces from related Medium post: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/build-your-own-self-driving-toy-car-ad00a6804b53

3D printable model for the camera mount can be found in this repo under 3d_print_model folder.

ROS Master machine setup:

1. Install Ubuntu 16.04
2. Install ROS Kinetic: http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu
3. Install ROS joystick package: sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-joy ros-kinetic-joystick-drivers
4. Install Catkin build tools: http://catkin-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html

Raspberry Pi setup:

1. Install latest Ubuntu MATE: https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/
2. Install ROS package for Raspberry Pi camera: http://ubiquityrobotics.com/blog/2016/01/24/Raspberry-Pi-Cam.html
3. Install Catkin build tools: http://catkin-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html

Building the workspace:

Run catkin build in the root of the project.

Setting up environment variables

Set up ROS Master node and Raspberry Pi IP addresses in scripts/setup_variables.sh