Pop!\_OS Robotics Kit

Hardware

• System76 Oryx Pro - https://system76.com/laptops/oryx

Software

• Robot Operating System Desktop - ros-desktop
• Robot Operating System Desktop Full - Ros-desktop-full
• ROS dependencies for users not using ROS: OpenCV, PCL, Eigen, OMPL, FCL, Bullet, ODE, Orocos KDL/BFL/RTT
• Non-ROS interprocess comm tools like ZeroMQ
• Aseba - https://www.thymio.org/
• Arduio IDE - cc.arduino.arduinoide - https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
• Gazebo7 - http://gazebosim.org/
• Liburdfdom-tools - https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
• Morse-simulator - http://morse-simulator.github.io/
• Gym for reinforcement learning - https://gym.openai.com/
• Octomap-tools - http://octomap.github.io/
• Open3D to add 3D perception tools
• Octovis - http://octomap.github.io/
• Orca - https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
• Robot-player - http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/
• Rtai - http://www.rtai.org/
• Xenomai-runtime - http://www.xenomai.org/
• V-REP - widely used simulator, EVALUATE LICENSING

For future consideration

• Ros-opencv-apps
• Ros-simulators
• ROS IDE in VS Code https://github.com/ms-iot/vscode-ros
• ROS IDEs - https://rosindustrial.org/news/2016/6/9/ros-qt-ide-plugin ,https://github.com/tonyrobotics/roboware-studio, http://wiki.ros.org/rosemacs, http://www.theconstructsim.com/rds-ros-development-studio/
• Choreonoid - http://choreonoid.org/

Notes

while robots definitely involve mechanical design, CAD are not necessarily core robotics tools. If they do belong in this list, why wouldn't you also throw in PCB design tools (Eagle, KiCad), and maybe even electronics simulation tools (ngspice). For simple projects, Linux students often use Onshape for CAD.