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Have things changed at all since Pointgrey were acquired by FLIR?

• mikepurvis 6y ago
  To be honest, I haven't really tracked it— the product I work on dropped stereo vision in favour of RGBD, so I don't really know where it's landed. I suppose it's not a great sign that the current generation SDK still requires a login to access: https://www.flir.ca/products/spinnaker-sdk/ https://www.flir.ca/products/spinnaker-sdk/ And at least one spinnaker-based driver seems to have inherited the "download the SDK from elsewhere" approach, though who knows if that's due to genuine need or just cargo-culting forward what was implemented years ago in the flycapture driver: https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver/blob/master/download_and_install_spinnaker.sh https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_dri... The "proper" approach here would of course be for Open Robotics (the ROS maintainers) to pull the debs and host them on the official ROS repos, as they do for a number of other dependencies [1], but that clearly hasn't happened [2]. I think a lot of hardware vendors who cut their teeth in the totally locked down world of industrial controls/perception still think they're protecting some fantastic trade secret or whatever by behaving like this. [1]: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/reprepro-updater/tree/master/config https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/reprepro-updater/tree/... [2]: http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/pool/main/s/ http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/pool/main/s/