Recommendations
A personal collection of food, books, tools, places, movies and music I keep telling people about.
Books
Modern Robotics — Kevin Lynch & Frank Park
Best treatment of kinematics and dynamics I've found, and it's free online.
Tools & Software
ROS2 + Nav2
My default stack for any wheeled robot.
Foxglove Studio
Way better than rviz for debugging sensor data.
KiCad
Free, and good enough for every board I've designed.
Hardware & Kits
TurtleBot4
Solid platform to learn Nav2 without building a chassis first.
Dynamixel servos
More expensive than hobby servos, worth it for anything with real load.
RPLIDAR A1
Cheapest LiDAR that's actually usable for indoor SLAM.