TurtleBot3 Setup

If you are setting up a new TurtleBot3, you can follow the guide on the Robotis website.

This can be tedious so we have created a custom Linux image to do this all for you.

Using the Custom Linux Image

In order to speed up the deployment of TurtleBots, we created a custom Linux image using Packer to provide you with a Linux image that has almost all of the settings pre-configured, and all of the TurtleBot3 features set up.

First, clone the GitHub repository found at tgodfrey0/turtlebot3_custom_image. The script uses podman (a better version of Docker) to build the image so this must be installed first.

Then you can cd into the directory and run the build script. You must specify the type of TurtleBot3 (either burger or waffle); you may also specify whether the image should not be compressed once it has been made, and whether a WiFi network should be added.

./build.sh waffle/burger [addconnection] [nocompress]

Note: optional arguments are in brackets.

This will then build a configure an Ubuntu server image with ROS2 Humble and all other packages and configurations to setup a TurtleBot3. the .img file can then be flashed to the Raspberry Pi on the robot.