#  Differential Drive robot with ros2 Jazzy. 

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**Created:** [February 3, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/differential-drive-robot-with-ros2-jazzy/52306 "2026-02-03T18:42:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![rainingmp3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/rainingmp3/32/32039_2.png) [@rainingmp3](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/rainingmp3)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/differential-drive-robot-with-ros2-jazzy/52306/1 "2026-02-03T18:42:12Z")

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I’ve made some progress on my first hardware project!

Basically it is a Frankenstein of many other’s engineers’ projects that I assembled together and forced to work for my configuration and for ros2 Jazzy. It’s just a simple differential drive mobile robot. The most popular starting point in all of the places.

Even though there was almost not a single original idea, it was really hard to accomplish it, and at this point I think I understand the most of the code, math, hardware and control used in it. Nevertheless, I managed to drive this robot with teleop and it drives really smooth. Later I all add more of a high-level stuff (e.g. bahaviour trees, navigation, etc.).

Not sure if I should dive into nav2 or is it better to try implementing these things by myself (for learning purposes I mean). Would be grateful if someone could advise me!

I stated the main challenges I encountered and many useful resources I collected in project’s repo: [GitHub - rainingmp3/pi\_diff\_drive: Real hardware ROS2 Jazzy Differential Drive Robot](https://github.com/rainingmp3/pi_diff_drive). So, if there are people that are really interested in starting with ros2, i think they will find it really useful.

I’d like to hear some pieces of advise on if I can apply for jobs/internships with this project, or maybe after I work on it some more time. I grew tired asking AI all these questions about career, master degrees, and so on and I just need reality check. I’ll be forever grateful. Thank you 🙂