🚀 Welcome to Test Linorobot2 Cockpit (v2026.09) — Try 1-Click Autonomy & Web SLAM!

[hippo5329]

🚀 Welcome to Test Linorobot2 Cockpit!

We are thrilled to announce that Linorobot2 Cockpit is ready for community testing and feedback!

Whether you are building a custom differential drive robot, testing a 4WD Mecanum chassis, or exploring ROS 2 autonomous navigation without any physical hardware, Cockpit provides an all-in-one web supervisor and unified robotics pipeline.

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🌟 What You Can Test Right Now

1. 🕹️ Zero-Hardware Virtual Simulation ("Sim MCU")

Don't have a robot or microcontroller on hand? No problem!
Cockpit features a built-in electro-mechanical simulator with virtual motor dynamics, battery sag modeling, and 2D LiDAR raycasting. You can test complete odometry, EKF sensor fusion, SLAM Toolbox mapping, and Nav2 path planning directly in Docker with zero physical wiring.

2. ⚡ The 1-Click Autonomy Pipeline

Experience autonomous robotics in seconds:

1. Open the Cockpit web interface.
2. Click the prominent blue 🚀 Start 1-Click button in the header.
3. Switch immediately to the Map Viewer tab and click Connect.
4. Watch the robot drive live on canvas! The robot maps room boundaries, detects obstacle walls with raycasted LiDAR scans, navigates around obstacles, and returns home autonomously.

3. 🔌 Multi-Microcontroller Hardware Support

Cockpit supports turnkey firmware generation and flashing across modern microcontrollers:

• Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (RP2350) & Pico W (RP2040)
• Espressif ESP32 & ESP32-S3 (e.g. Waveshare General Driver Board, Yahboom YB-EET01)
• Supports both high-speed USB serial (up to 1.5 Mbaud) and wireless UDP Micro-ROS transport.

4. 📡 Over-The-Air (OTA) Firmware Updates

Update your robot's microcontroller firmware wire-free via ArduinoOTA on port 3232, featuring full authentication password protection and automated flashing tools.

5. 🎛️ Complete In-Browser Tuning Suite

• Kinematics & Physics HUD: Real-time stopping distance and acceleration modeling.
• Pin Matrix Conflict Guard: Validates GPIO assignments and timer conflicts in real time.
• Velocity PID & Teleoperation: Interactive slider tuning and live teleop controls.
• In-Browser RViz: Embedded virtual X11 / noVNC display for 3D costmaps and TF trees.

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🚀 Quick Start (Docker Compose)

Get started in under 3 minutes:

git clone https://github.com/hippo5329/linorobot2-cockpit.git
cd linorobot2-cockpit

# Start Cockpit supervisor and web interface
docker compose up -d

# Open in your browser:
# http://localhost:8000

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📚 Documentation & Guides

Explore the comprehensive guides on our GitHub Wiki:

• 📖 Wiki Home & Architecture Overview
• 🖥️ Web UI Walkthrough Guide (Step-by-Step)
• 🔄 The 1-Click Pipeline Explained
• 🕹️ Built-in Simulator Guide
• 🏎️ Turnkey Reference Designs

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💬 We'd Love Your Feedback!

Please test Cockpit on your systems and tell us:

• How was your first 1-Click simulation run?
• What microcontroller or robot chassis did you test?
• Did you run into any hurdles with Docker, serial ports, or Wi-Fi?
• What features or hardware drivers would you love to see next?

Feel free to reply directly to this discussion, share screenshots of your generated maps, or open an Issue if you spot any bugs.

Happy robot building! 🤖✨