Pyro revisited

Well, I had wanted to do this for a long time. Get pyro working on my laptop, so that I could run some bot code

Anyways, the process of installing pyro is quite a pain, but thankfully well documented.

First step, install gazebo from Player-Stage website . To install gazebo, please note that you must have a video card which is supported by gazebo, as the program is quite graphic-intensive. A list of supported video card is found here . Unfortunately, my lappy is not supported! (A powerbook Tibook G4). Basically, you would need a Direct Rendering supporting video card to do anything useful with gazebo. It might be possible for me to get it working with a couple of kernel-recompiles, but that’s something I am unwilling to do.

Gazebo is basically a 3-D environment robot (or any) simulation. So, you could have robot simulations in a 3-D environment. It would have been nice to compile it in …sigh!

But on to stage, which is basically a 2-D simulator, with sensors and stuff. This also, can be obtained from Player-Stage website . I did have to install a large number of programs, and libraries to get this working. All details of installation were collected from either the pyro installation page, the readme files, or the player stage installation page. If you just want a list of packages to run from a script, this might be useful.

After I compiled in stage, I went ahead and compiled player, getting the source from the same website and following the README file.

Finally, I compiled pyro, with source from cvs.

Now that I have all of them installed, off to sleep today. Tommorow, we will tackle writing basic programs using python in pyro! have fun!