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Simple debian repository

How to have a simple debian repository to offer your packages.

Requirements

You probably have them already installed

• Python (I used 2.7).
• dpkg-scanpackages: sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
• gzip: sudo apt-get install gzip

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How to make a debian from a ROS package

The instructions are based on this answers.ros.org thread.

Get dependencies

You may need the latest pip, follow the official instructions.

Install bloom:

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Example of usage of ipython debugger (ipdb)
to interactively debug something in the code with autocomplete and color support.

You may need to install:
sudo pip install ipdb
"""

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import numpy as np
import math
from tf.transformations import euler_from_quaternion, quaternion_from_euler
from geometry_msgs.msg import Point

"""
Stuff to compute an orientation quaternion
from three points in the space (that represent a plane,

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import rospy
from sensor_msgs.msg import Image
from cv_bridge import CvBridge
import cv2

"""
Node to transform an input Image topic into

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How to open Visual Studio Code via command line

In order to open a Visual Studio Code sometimes we want to do it from the command line. Either because that allows us to just open the current file or folder, or because we would like to script opening some specific resource. This resource may be placed in another machine (e.g. via ssh), or in a docker container (running in the same machine or in another machine).

Local file or folder

code <file or folder>
# e.g. code .

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import itertools
import sys
import time
import rospy
import rosbag
import message_filters

"""
Example using a message_filters filter (ApproximateTimeSynchronizer) iterating

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Save an iPython session commands/code to a file

You must use the magic method %save:

In [1]: %save?
Type:       Magic function
String Form:<bound method CodeMagics.save of <IPython.core.magics.code.CodeMagics object at 0x7fb5d25bb1d0>>
Namespace:  IPython internal
File: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/core/magics/code.py

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How to make a python function or class method threaded

From this stack overflow question I got this great snippet.

# Threaded function snippet
def threaded(fn):
    """To use as decorator to make a function call threaded.
    Needs import
    from threading import Thread"""

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import time
import pprint
import openvr


"""
Get the HTC Vive controllers keypresses and print them to screen.