Announcing ROS Android Sensors Driver

Announcement by Chad Rockey (maintainer of laser_drivers to ROS users

Hi ROS Community,

I've been working on a driver that connects the sensors in Android devices to the ROS environment. At this time, it only publishes sensor_msgs/NavSatFix messages, but I will soon introduce sensor_msgs/Imu and sensor_msgs/Image to publish data from accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and front/rear cameras.

To get more information and to install, please see the following:

• http://www.ros.org/wiki/androidsensorsdriver/
• https://market.android.com/details?id=org.ros.android.sensors_driver

To file bugs, request features, view source, or contribute UI, translation, or other improvements, please see the Google Code project:

http://code.google.com/p/android-sensors-driver/

I hope everyone finds this useful and I look forward to hearing your feedback and seeing cool uses for Android devices in robotics.

Thanks,
- Chad Rockey