Connect maestro board from pololu to ROS
Besure to test your board using the Maestro control center.
You need to install all the pre-reqs listed in the README of their control software.
For the no longer available winforms2.0 package, simply use the suggested replacement package by apt
Tested with Linux Mint 18.03(Ubuntu 16.03), using ROS kinectic
After setting up ROS
rosrun ros_maestro ros_maestro_node this will start the maestro driver that listens to the maestro_command topic. It expects a string as input. The first two digits will be channel number(pad with 0 if necessary), the next four digit will be the speed/location for the motor/servo
An example publisher is also included
The maestro_driver is a simple ROS wrapper of the cross plaform C program listed on Pololu's document. Feel free to take a look at the original one(https://www.pololu.com/docs/0J40/5.h.1).