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Usually it is quite simple writing a hardware driver for ROS as it mainly is producing a message interface, and possibly diagnostics. That is, given, that you can write/modify a hardware driver not specific to ROS.

For examples you can see the links provided by Bart. There might also be (non-ROS) sample code for your hardware that you can easily modify.

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