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In a previous post I described the build of a remote control for my Samsung TV and Sonos sound bar from within Home Assistant. I have received considerable interest in this post and many questions. If you have not read this post, I suggest you read it first. Click on link to view – Home Assistant Remote Control For My...

I have a Samsung Smart TV (UA49NU7100) and a Sonos Soundbar/Subwoofer in my lounge room, all of which work really well. For many years we have also used a Logitech Harmony Hub remote control – which was great, as it could give quite specific control, and worked more reliably than the standard Samsung remote. However, after many years of service...

I live in Melbourne in Australia and have installed the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Australia component on my Home Assistant server to present the local weather. I have used the Bureau of Meteorology custom component / integration and the Custom Animated Weather Card to present the current weather and forecasts. Both of these are installed from HACS (integration and frontend)....

In my previous posts from this series, I have used a simple servo based robot arm to learn how ROS and MoveIt could be installed to drive the arm’s movement. In those posts I used ‘rosserial‘ to connect my PC running ROS to the Arduino driving the servos. While it worked OK – connecting the Arduino by a USB cable...

In this post I progress my journey to learn ROS. I installed MoveIt, and used it to plan and simulate my robot’s motion. The simulation is then connected to the robot, and is used to drive the motion of the physical robot arm.

This post will describe the start of my journey to build a ROS driven servo based robot arm. I have started by buying a 6 DOF servo based robot arm kit. I then modelled the arm in Fusion 360 – the 3D model provides all the components required to create the robot simulation within ROS.