Setting up computer environment for controlling Baxter
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This tutorial assumes that you have already unpackaged and setup Baxter for connection to a computer. Instructions for this can be found here.
Software Requirements
- Operating System
- Linux Ubuntu 12.04 Precise is highly recommended. A great tutorial to help you install Ubuntu is [here.]
- Setup Ubuntu Operating System
- Now that the Operating system has been installed, the development workspace dependencies and libraries must be installed, then the network. This first requires ROS and the Baxter SDK dependencies.
- See directions for doing this under steps 2-6 here. It is recommended that you follow them closely and install ROS Groovy and the Baxter SDK Dependencies for Groovy.
- For step 6 network configuration is required. LAN can be setup by following the located here.
- Other network communication modes can be setup by following the Rethinks tutorialhere.
- If step 7 is successful you have now successfully setup Baxters development environment! The next guide covers how to get Baxter to wave "Hello!"