Getting Started Using ROS on a Micro Controller

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anyone else sick of just being redirected to the getting started pages and tutorials?

If you want to work with embedded systems (but rather more powerful systems than Stamp) you can also have a look at EROS.

Yes....I m sick too (sometime)

But answering the first question from Hannibal: ROS it definitly too big and complex to run on a small microcontroller like parallax, microchip or arduino (uno, novemila, etc...). That really not what you want to get. ROS is ok if you have a more complex system like beaglebone, RADXA ROCK, etc... Since I came from the world of Arduino and Microchip (as hobby) I understand you perfectly. The most interesting thing you can do is using a serial communicating between ROS (your PC or Notebook) and the embedded application (your parallax in the robot) . The small device is going to drive all pheriperical devices like motor, servos, sensors etc... but sendd and receives what to do and how to do from the PC (through a serial communication). With ROS you are able to run really complex systems to manage all you want to do. I know it could be a little bit surprising for you, but this is the philosophy of ROS. You create Nodes which Communicate... I hope this help you a little bit