Welcome to Snowbots! This repo is where you'll be working on an RF Comm onboarding challeng - to make multiple machines communicate with each other over WiFI through a router! The goal of this is to become comfortable working with C++ and ROS, and also be used to our development processes! This challenge will look a little intimidating at first, as we've been intentionally vague in several places, but this is so we can get you to use the power of google or to ask us for help (that's what we're here for!) for problem solving.
Our test router for CIRC/URC, is a TP-Link Archer C7 AC-1750 that you'll interface your machines with via WiFi.
When you're assigned a project, it will be in the form of a Github Issue, so it's important that you can read and interpret them, and also ask for clarification if needed. You can read the issue for the this onboarding under the Issues page on this repository.
Just when you thought this wasn't like school.... this onboarding aims to teach you the following things:
- interpreting requirements and clarifying potentially vague github issues
- C++ skillz
- general ROS knowledge
- experience with basic algorithm development
- Send commands and responses with 2 machines, as if one is the base computer and the other is a robot computer, via http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/MultipleMachines
- Extend the poinr-to-point communcation by introducing a robot data server between the base computer and the robot computer. This server should do some light pre-processing on the data passing through it.