This is a driver for the Mini-Box DCDC NUC computer power suppy.

The point of this application is to have status information of the power supply in ROS.

You must clone this repository as dcdc-nuc into your catkin workspace:

git clone https://github.com/mcgill-robotics/ros-dcdc-nuc dcdc_nuc

You will need to patch your HID kernel driver to be able to communicate with the power supply. The McGill Robotics compsys repository contains the script to patch the kernel.

If you do not have the compsys repository cloned, you can do so by running:

git clone https://github.com/mcgill-robotics/compsys.git

To run the script, change directory into compsys repository and run:

./drivers/dcdc-nuc/install

This package requires libusb-dev to build. You can get it by running on:

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev

To run, simply launch the dcdc_nuc_node node as such:

rosrun dcdc_nuc dcdc_nuc_node