I’m an engineer, and am pretty clueless when it comes to film-making. However, I’ve been asked by a few different people how I made the ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core video series. While I’m not deluding myself into thinking I’m a pro, I’m happy with how they turned out, and they were made on a shoestring budget with open-source software. This post is for those who are curious about what I did, what I used, and how I did it....

The Darktable snap (darktable-kyrofa) is terribly out-of-date. I’d like to bring it up to the latest release, but I could use your help verifying that things still work. If you’re a photographer, particularly if you have some experience using Darktable, mind putting it through its paces? v2.2.4snap1-rc1 is in the candidate channel: $ sudo snap install --candidate darktable-kyrofa Please let me know if you run into any issues. Update: v2.2.4snap1 has now been released into the stable channel....

We’re getting ready to release a new version of the Nextcloud snap with a few new features, including: Supporting changing ports from the default 80/443. Supporting Samba shares. We’d love this new version (particularly these new features) to get some exercise before we release it. Feel like helping? We’ve put together some smoke tests to get you started. Please test all you can, but if you only have time to focus on the smoke tests covering the new features, that would still be very useful....

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics. This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a gadget snap to allow confined access to the Turtlebot. In this post, we’re going to put all the pieces from this series together and create an Ubuntu Core image with our ROS snap preinstalled, ready to send to the factory for production....

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics. This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In this post, we’re going to work toward an Ubuntu Core image by creating what’s called a gadget snap....