Getting Started¶

To follow along with this workshop, you will want to download Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and that has been developed for the workshop.

Prerequisites¶

Before starting this guide, make sure you have the following things installed:

VS Code

Docker Desktop

WSL2 Kernel Update (if necessary)

Create A Folder¶

Create a folder titled ros-workshop, which will store the code for this workshop.

Starting Our Terminal Windows for Docker¶

To start, open Visual Studio Code and open the “ros-workshop” folder you created. Next, Open the ros-workshop folder in VS Code, then select Terminal -> New Terminal. Finally, click the Split Terminal option twice, which will give you three terminal windows.

Starting and Entering our Docker Container¶

For the first terminal, start the container with:

docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/ros-workshop --name ros-workshop ros:humble

For the other two, and for all subsequent containers, run:

docker exec -it ros-workshop bash
source "/opt/ros/$ROS_DISTRO/setup.bash"