Hi Ahmed,
Thanks for the interest - questions are very welcome.
The hardware is ideal for robotics, drones, and other applications involving real-time control, machine vision/image processing, SLAM, etc. Given ROS’s open source initiative, expansive code base, developer community, and growing application acceptance, we wanted to make sure people can to quickly and easily take advantage of our hardware’s capabilities by leveraging existing software infrastructures.
We’re also taking with a few folks involved with ArduPilot (open source drone autopilot) about integrating with that system as well. Support for other open source OSs and projects like Android and OpenCV are also in the works… If anyone would like to see other software platforms supported, we’re definitely interested in hearing about them!
-Ryan
Dear Ryan,
I would be interested in testing ROS on new ARM hardware. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind. What kind of applications are you building your hardware for and why did you choose ROS?