Create ROS App
Create ROS app is a tool for making ROS setup easier than ever before.
Working with JX, a roboticist at NTU in Singapore, we set out to solve the problem of the robotics developer experience.
From our surveys of the robotics community, setup times for a ROS project often exceeded 2 hours. This echoes the early days of Webpack and web javascript frameworks like React and Angular.
One salvation from setup challenges for web developers was Create-React-App, and also more modern tools like the Vercel CLI. These tools make it easy for even a complete novice to deploy a web app.
To build a tool with a similar function for Robotics, we set out to create an ultra-simple CLI based setup tool which abstracts away the ROS setup process from users, no matter their underlying OS or system configuration.
Learn more at the CRP website
Future Work
Teaming up with JingXiang Mo of NTU and Jack Parmer, of Flojoy and Plotly, we aim to bring next generation tooling to the robotics space. Stay tuned for some far more ambitious projects soon to come.