ROS2 Lidar - kinda
Continuing my ongoing quest to see if I can get anything from ROS2 and a small Lidar device ( I just found a YT video of a very young person, maybe 12? that, of course, got this working using Rviz2 in about 8minutes, pfhh... guess my technical days are numbered?! ) However, not to be deterred, I am choosing to do this the "hard way", ie. I want to see RAW data, I want to see the values being spat out of the Lidar, I want to see the numbers - I then want to record that or process it on the fly - yes, I know that RViz2 will do that, but I want to be able to use it for some autonomous sensor usage, ie. make the thing self-drive & navigate. Maybe I should search YT to follow another 12year old that has already done that already? Anyway, I suppose it's a bit like sitting on a couch in your socks & pants, eating biscuits, watching p0rn on the TV, saying, "yeah, I can do that", "that's easy, anyone can do it" - but IRL, it's somewhat more com...