> Hey all,
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> Has anyone had any luck deploying TCPROS on microcontrollers which have ethernet interfaces?
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> I'm using a Cortex M3, and I'd like to be able to do realtime stuff, so I would prefer to stay close to the metal, rather than running on top of a linux kernel. What I'm envisioning is this device participating on a wired network with a PC which provides roscore. The M3 would come up and have an IP configured where it looks for core (or it could just arp on its subnet and try them all).
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> On a high level, what's the feasibility of this? How possible will it be to run the comms portion of roscpp without depending on OS-provided process management, signalling, sockets, etc?
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> I've been having trouble using eros with the vendor-provided toolchain, so I've also been experimenting with just manually compiling portions of libros--- how realistic is that as an alternative approach?
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> As a third possibility, would it make sense to try to build this up from rosserial, rather than by peeling away layers of roscpp?
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> Thanks for any feedback or suggestions,
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> Mike