<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8ab76193-1174-2a31-ec90-82c80447bd7f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hi all,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I have updated most of the </span><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/action/fullsearch/turtlebot_arm?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=linkto%3A%22turtlebot_arm%22" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(43,127,207);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">turtlebot_arm</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> stack to work on Indigo and with </span><a href="http://moveit.ros.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">MoveIt!</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. It’s released as version 0.3.x (while fuerte version was 0.2.x). The big missing parts are the </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot_arm_interactive_markers?distro=fuerte" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(43,127,207);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">turtlebot_arm_interactive_markers</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> that are not really needed now because you can do the same with the RViz moveit plugin, and the </span><a href="http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot_block_manipulation?distro=fuerte" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(43,127,207);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">turtlebot_block_manipulation</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, that relays on deprecated stuff. Instead, I added a simple pick and place demo to show the arm operating with MoveIt! Hopefully, I'll be able to add more sophisticated demos (like a MoveIt! version of the block manipulation demo), as soon as I find time to do so!</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I also updated the documentation and tutorials, but I’m pretty sure I let some errors and fuerte staff that doesn't hold anymore, so please, please, please let me know (or better correct yourself!) any mistakes you find.</span></p>
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