Friday 1.0 releases: diagnostics, joystick_drivers, imu_drivers

Today, three of our driver-related stack reached 1.0 status:

• diagnostics
• imu_drivers
• joystick_drivers

These stacks provide drivers and diagnostic capability for the Microstrain 3DM-GX2 IMU, PS3 joystick, and the Linux joystick. There is also experimental support for the Wiimote and 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator. The diagnostics stack also provides GUIs for viewing diagnostic information from these and other drivers.

We also had several more releases today to test features and bug fixes for coming 1.0 releases:

• pr2_mechanism 0.5.5
• pr2_ethercat_drivers 0.2.2
• laser_drivers 0.4.1

Next week, we will start to transition towards 1.0 releases of PR2-related components -- we hope you enjoyed today's unveiling of the PR2 Beta robots!

Change lists:

• diagnostics
• imu_drivers
• joystick_drivers
• pr2_mechanism
• pr2_ethercat_drivers

• laser_drivers

  -- your friendly neighborhood ROS drivers