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Week 0: Setup Your Computer For Creative Robotics

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What to expect over the next 4 weeks
Windows 11 : Setting Up Your Computer with Docker, WSL and VS Code
GitHub, FreeCAD and Blender
Ubuntu 22.04: Setting up your computer with Docker and VS Code
Why Using Docker Will Save You Hours Of Debugging
The Best Way To Save Complex Robotic Projects: Git, GitHub and VCSTool
How To Look Like A Hacker With No Effort: Quickly Using The Linux Command Line
3 Tips To Rapidly Build Models In FreeCAD
How To Publish Your Robotics Work On Social Media Such As LinkedIN
Ready To Create Robots Checklist
Week 0 Live Session
Week 1: Getting To Know ROS 2 And KRYTN Robot

How To Drive A Robot: Teleoperation Of KRYTN
Is The Robotic Operating System Actually Just Like A Discord Group? Peering Under The Hood
Using The SOLn Framework To Setup Your Robot
Giving Your Robot Eyes: How To Simulate Sensors For KRYTN
Giving Your Robot Memory: Setting Up Mapping With KRYTN robot
Self Driving Robot?!? How To Setup Autonomous Navigation For KRYTN Robot
Designing Your First Robot Link: Using FreeCAD To Sketch Over An Image
Make Your Meshes Shine! How To Use Blender To Colour Your Meshes
How To Add Stuff To Your Robot: Adding A Coffee Tray To KRYTN
My Robot Is Broken! 5 Tips For Debugging ROS
Day 1 Task: Teleoperating A Robot
Day 2 Task: Peering Under The Hood
Day 3 Task: Adding Eyes
Day 4 Task: Making A Map
Day 5 Task: Creating A Tray
Day 6 Task: Adding Tray To Robot
Day 7 Task: Publish Your Work
Week 1 Live Session
Week 2: Robot Arms, The MACI Robot

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How To Move Your Robot Arm: Using the MoveIT Package
How To Deal With Robot Complexity: Cleaning the Workspace For MACI
Using Other Peoples Code For Robot Models (URDF, XACRO and spawning in launch files))
Giving You Robot Hands: Designing A Simple Gripper In FreeCAD
Installing The Gripper On MACI And Configuring It Using MoveIT2
Programming Your Robot: Writing A Simple Python Script To Open And Close Your Gripper
How To Use Other Peoples Work To Move Your Robot: Using pymoveit2 To Script Your Robot
Adding Something For MACI To Pick UP: Using Gazebo To Create An Environment
Day 8 Task: Using MoveIT
Day 9 Task: Create A Gripper
Day 10 Task: Attach Gripper
Day 11 Task: Control Gripper
Day 12 Task: Using pymoveit2
Day 13 Task: Adding Something To Pick Up
Day 14 Task: Publish Your Work
Week 2 Live Session
Week 3 & 4: Find a Robot And Simulate It

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How To Sketch A Robot In FreeCAD For ROS: The 4S Method
Don't Start From Scratch Again: How To Use KRYTN and MACI Projects As Templates
Fantastic Robots And Where To Find Them: How To Pick A Robot To Simulate
How To Create Interesting Environments? Use Your Phone To Scan The World And Load It Into Gazebo
3 Example Robot Simulations Created From Images Of Real Robots
Gazebo Is Boring Without Plugins: Configuring Gazebo Plugins To Let Your Robot Move And See
3 Tips For Your Robot Build
From Simulation To Real World: What You'll Need To Change To Use These Templates On A Physical Robot
Day 15 Task: 4S Method
Day 16 Task: Using Projects As Templates
Day 17 Task: Picking A Robot
Day 18 Task: Scanning Your Environment
Day 19 Task: Setup Gazebo Plugins
Day 20 Task: Example Robot Simulations
Day 21 Task: Publish Robot So Far
Day 22 Task: Spawn a known robot
Day 23 Task: Spawn your robot
Day 24 Task: Configure Sensors
Day 25 Task: Robot Teleoperation
Day 26 Task: Environment Mapping
Day 27 Task: Autonomous Operation
Day 28 Task: Celebrate and Publish Your Robot
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Live Session Replay Week 4
Live Session Replay Week 5

Week 2: Robot Arms, The MACI Robot

In this week we will dive into how to control robot arms, using the MACI robot arm as a case study.

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