Hardware and Software Configuration

Students report consistently that the hardest and most frustrating part of this class is to get the hardware and software working correclty and reliably. We have experimented a lot to streamline this procedure.

For this class, you will need the following setup.

Running VMWare:

  • Mac, Windows or Linux
  • 8Gig or more of RAM,
  • Solid State internal Disk (SSD)
  • At least 30Gig disk free
  • no older than 2 years
Otherwise

If you don’t have such a computer, then we will loan you a Solid State Disk that you can boot from. A little less convenient but more reliable and will work on just about any computer

Operating System

  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • ROS Melodic