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Open Hardware/Modding: MakerBot, Raspberry Pi Chips, and Robotic Operating System (ROS)

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 23rd of January 2022 02:33:12 AM Filed under
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  • The Steam Foundation teams up with MakerBot to expand access to AM »

    The Steam Foundation and MakerBot have teamed up to bring 3D printing to more students across the U.S. Founded by Aadhav Prabu and Akshar Raikanti, The Steam Foundation is a California-based nonprofit with a mission to make STEAM education equally accessible to all students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The organization, which is also run by a team of students, offers free workshops that teach 3D printing, robotics, graphic design, and coding to students as well as programs to help bring 3D printing into schools.

  • Raspberry Pi offers RP2040 chips in bulk • The Register

    If you only need the smallest of Raspberry Pi chips, but you need a lot of them, you can now buy the gang's RP2040 microcontrollers directly from the farm supplier in lots of 500 or 3,400.

    Because the Raspberry Pi range is so cheap, people use lots of them – even in places where a complete Linux computer is arguably overkill. That's probably why, this time last year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the Raspberry Pi Pico, a $4 device based around the RP2040 microcontroller – its first in-house CPU design.

    The end-user version of the Pi Pico is a tiny PCB containing the RP2040 system-on-a-chip (SoC) and 2 MB of flash memory. (The board is a hair over 2×5cm, so only slightly bigger than an old-style DIP chip such as a Z80.) The RP2040 is still an ARM, but a tiny one: a dual-core 133 MHz Cortex M0+, plus 264 kB of RAM.

  • Apex.AI and ROS: Growing Automotive Impact

    Multiple segments of the automotive industry have been embracing open source software, especially Linux-based code over the last decade.

    Here we focus on an open framework called robotic operating system (ROS). Apex.AI is leveraging ROS, adding new automotive capabilities discussed below.

    ROS has been around for over decade and increasingly used by autonomous vehicle (AV) developers. Apex.AI has greatly improved ROS for automotive applications.

    I summarize the importance of ROS and then profile Apex.AI. With its focus on the automotive industry and software-defined vehicles, the company is gaining support, making it a future player in AV development and a likely acquisition target.

    ROS is a software framework focused on developing systems and applications for robotics products. Robotics includes most types of autonomous systems—terrestrial, airborne and seaborne. The table below provides an overview of ROS. Sources include the Open Robotics website.

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