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Making a ROS node

In order to make your code program a ROS node, follow the ROS tutorials. Go through the whole beginner tutorial while setting up ROS. When making the workspace, use catkin not rosbuild. Catkin is used for building packages. Further guides:

• Creating packages
• Building packages

Make sure to coordinate (using catkin). Coordinate with the student working on the main coordinator/controller node in order to integrate your node with theirs.

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