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Orion's trajectory around the Moon visualized in the Foxglove 3D panel

Visualizing the Artemis II Mission

CommunityTutorialVisualizationJul 20, 2026

In April 2026, four astronauts flew around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years. I built a Foxglove visualization of the Artemis II mission: Orion's real trajectory through inertial space in 3D, 476 mission photos synchronized to the timeline, and a custom photo-stepper extension that turns the whole thing into a navigable album.

ros2_medkit Foxglove extension in action

When you can't reach the robot: SOVD diagnostics and OTA updates in Foxglove via the ros2_medkit extension

CommunityROSTutorialJul 15, 2026

When your connection to a warehouse robot drops, ros2_medkit brings SOVD diagnostics, on-robot failure capture, and OTA repair actions into Foxglove panels—so you can see the problem and fix it in one application.

The LeKiwi robot with its OAK-D S2 pan-tilt camera on a desk, next to a monitor showing a pointcloud in Foxglove and a Steam Deck

Visualizing Depth Maps and Pointclouds from the OAK-D S2 in Foxglove

CommunityTutorialJun 18, 2026

How I integrated a Luxonis OAK-D S2 stereo depth camera into my LeKiwi robot's ROS 2 stack — configuring the depthai-ros driver for low bandwidth, compressing pointclouds with Cloudini, and visualizing RGB images, depth maps, and pointclouds in Foxglove's 3D panel.

The LeKiwi mobile robot on a desk, with its pan-tilt camera, 360° LiDAR, and omni wheels

Autonomous Navigation with LeKiwi and Nav2

CommunityTutorialJun 9, 2026

How I added autonomous navigation to my LeKiwi robot with Nav2 — covering LiDAR filtering, mapping with slam_toolbox, localization with AMCL, and configuring Nav2 for a holonomic base, all visualized and controlled from Foxglove.

Teleoperating the LeKiwi Robot from a Steam Deck

CommunityTutorialApr 28, 2026

Learn how to turn a Steam Deck into a portable all-in-one LeKiwi controller and Foxglove monitoring station using Pixi, Distrobox, and ROS 2.

Live TF frames and navigation paths overlaid on photorealistic 3D map tiles in Foxglove.

Extension: Bringing photorealistic 3D maps to Foxglove for outdoor robot navigation

CommunityROSApr 6, 2026

Jion Kubo shares a Foxglove extension that renders photorealistic 3D tiles, fuses ROS 2 robot data in a local ENU frame, and publishes goals and clicked points without leaving the 3D view.

ANYmal with Boxi payload traversing forest path.

GrandTour: Taking Legged Robotics Into the Wild

CommunityROSMar 26, 2026

Introducing GrandTour: a large-scale, open-access legged-robotics dataset spanning 49 missions across diverse conditions to accelerate the development and benchmarking of autonomy algorithms.

Calibrating a monocular camera for the LeKiwi robot using ROS 2

CommunityMar 4, 2026

This article details the process of calibrating a USB webcam for the LeKiwi robot, modifying the standard ROS 2 camera calibration process to run headless without a display, using terminal logging and automatic result saving.

Upgrading the LeKiwi into a LiDAR-equipped explorer

CommunityTutorialFeb 7, 2026

Upgrading LeKiwi robot with a 2D LiDAR and ROS 2, transforming it into a low-cost open-source autonomous platform

Turning a VLP‑16 Into a “Spherical” Scanner

TutorialCommunityJan 31, 2026

How a secondhand VLP‑16, one extra mechanical axis, and encoder-based deskewing turned into a cave-mapping learning project