rclrockstar

A ROS 2 client library for the Rockstar programming language.

Why?

So we can all be rockstar robot developers 🧑‍🎤 🤖

Features

• Create ROS nodes
• Create ROS publishers for type std_msgs/msg/String
• Publish string data

Roadmap

• Create ROS subscriptions for type std_msgs/msg/String
• Create ROS timers

Setup

1. Install ROS 2 (Foxy or newer)

2. Clone this repository

    git clone https://github.com/jacobperron/rclrockstar.git
   

3. Install Python dependencies with Poetry

    pip3 install poetry
    cd rclrockstar
    poetry install
   

Usage

In the root of the repository,

poetry run ros_rocks examples/ros.rock

For more info,

poetry run ros_rocks --help 

Examples

Here's an example Rockstar program that creates a ROS node, a publisher, and publishes data every 1 second in an infinite loop:

My turtle is "gone"
Put ROS taking my turtle into jail
My turtle is "blue"
Let somebody be ROS wants jail and my turtle
My turtle is fine without you
My love is "awesome"
While ok
Shout "Hello ROS!"
ROS wants somebody, my love
ROS taking my turtle

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the full license here.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to yyyyyyyan for rockstar-py, which is where the transpilation code was copied from.