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ROS drivers for joysticks
http://wiki.ros.org/joystick_drivers
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spacenav: tutorials outdated #76

Open gavanderhoorn opened 9 years ago

gavanderhoorn commented 9 years ago

The tutorials linked from the spacenav_node wiki page still refer to rosbuild and seem to suggest that the package should be build from source. I've seen two questions about this on ROS Answers in a few weeks:

John-Nagle commented 9 years ago

gvdhoom left a good answer at the wiki page, which could be used to revise the tutorials. Also worth noting is that the Ubuntu install seems to install the driver daemon as a daemon, so the hardware is recognized without having to run a driver program each time.

These devices can be modified to act as 6-DOF force sensing wrists. So please consider supporting more than one instance. Low priority.

Worth noting: /spacenav/offset contains the 3 translations, range -0.75 to 0.75, and /spacenav/rot_offset contains the 3 rotations, same range. /spacenav/joy contains the three translations followed by the 3 rotations. The first two can be graphed with rqt_plot, but "joy" cannot. 3dmousehardright Image description: rqt_plot showing 3DConnexion mouse output. Mouse turned clockwise to limit.

JWhitleyWork commented 4 years ago

The whole stack is outdated. Closing.

gavanderhoorn commented 4 years ago

@JWhitleyAStuff: how is this a proper resolution of the issue?

JWhitleyWork commented 4 years ago

@gavanderhoorn Sorry, this was more of a bad joke. Reversing.