Internet of Things archives
6 posts from August 2019
Canonical joins the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee
By Kyle Fazzari, 28 August 2019
We at Canonical care deeply about robotics. We firmly believe that robots based on Linux are cheaper to develop, more flexible, more secure, and faster to...
A guide to developing Android apps on Ubuntu
By Alex Cattle, 27 August 2019
Android is the most popular mobile operating system and is continuing to grow its market share. IDC expects that Android will have 85.5% of the market by...
Snaps help Xibo rekindle its relationship with Linux
By Sarah Dickinson, 27 August 2019
Sometimes, relationships just don’t work out. At first, it seemed that Xibo and Linux were made for each other. Xibo had a popular open source digital signage...
Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation
By Sarah Dickinson, 21 August 2019
When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system...
How to add a linter to ROS 2
By Ted Kern, 21 August 2019
A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of...
Linting ROS 2 Packages with mypy
By Ted Kern, 15 August 2019
One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which...