Ask HN: Paid ROS Tutoring?

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by danielm25 • 5 years ago

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Can anyone recommend a personal ROS tutor that has availability 1-2 hours per week for online tutoring? I've taken a few online courses and have read several books on ROS, but want some one-on-one help as well. Can pay an hourly rate. Thanks!

SkyMarshal• 5 years ago

What’s ROS? First google result is Robot Operating System (https://www.ros.org/)…

altvali• 5 years ago

Try reaching out to the community of https://www.theconstructsim.com/

oso2k• 5 years ago

What is ROS in this context?

jeffreygoesto3• 5 years ago

I'd guess the "Robotic Operating System" https://www.ros.org

It's not an operating system though, but a middleware and an ecosystem for lots of tools and so called "packages" for robotic and educational use. Language bindings are C++, Python, Java and Lisp (maybe more I don't remember).

butwhywhyoh• 5 years ago

I have a decent amount of ROS experience and could possibly be of service. What are you looking to learn / do specifically?

jeffreygoesto3• 5 years ago

ROS 1 or 2?

Kon-Peki• 5 years ago

That makes a big difference. It's almost like a Python 2 vs 3 situation. When I was using Foxy (2) last year, just about all of the material I found online was for 1 - and it doesn't work. It was the classic community shooting itself in the foot, and I sincerely hope that it has improved since then.

jeffreygoesto3• 5 years ago

Matches my umpression. ROS2 is run by a much smaller number of "insiders" and highly volatile still. They try to improve everything at once with a big bang, which has lots of good as well as bad sides.

To find the right person for coaching, you should be clear which one you want to target, because they are so different.

amacneil• 5 years ago

I don't know of anyone doing 1:1 ROS tutoring, but here are some other links that might help:

- The Construct (ROS training courses): https://www.theconstructsim.com/

- ROS Discourse (forums): https://discourse.ros.org/

- Foxglove Community Slack (plenty of folks willing to answer questions): https://foxglove.dev/slack

msadowski• 5 years ago

What kind of robots are you interested in? Or is it just about the framework? I’ve been working as a ROS consultant for over 3 years now but never properly considered tutoring.

You can check out my blog (https://msadowski.github.io/) and if my experience seems relevant then feel free to reach out through email (you will find it on my profile on HN) to see if we can make it work.

davidbensoussan• 5 years ago

I don't think this is a thing unfortunately. I can only think of the seasonal ROS Industrial trainings that are quite expensive.

Other than this, most material are available for free, but I would agree no direct pointers.

You have the ros community available for help on answers.ros.org, the discourse for more general questions and finally some slack community like the nav2 managed by Steve Macenski, the main contributor.

The Construct is probably the closest you can get.

jfrd• 5 years ago

I’m a PhD student with ~5years ROS experience. What is your programming experience level? Why do you want to learn ROS?

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