Hexapod driver

About The Project

This ROS package is used by the Hexapod project and contains ROS nodes for using different on-board sensors. At the moment, the package is meant for the Freenove Big Hexapod kit and is meant for their custom Raspberry-pi shield.

Included sensors:

• ADS7830
• MPU5060
• PCA9685

Getting Started

To use this package, ROS needs to be installed on your Raspberry-pi. For more detail about ROS, please refer to the ROS documentations. This project was built with ROS Noetic release.

For communicating over I2C and GPIO, install the Wiring Pi library:

sudo apt-get install wiringpi

Usage

Using this ROS package is the same with any other ROS package, first create a catkin workspace and clone this repo in the src directory. Please refer to the ROS documentations for more details.