What you need for this book

You should have a good PC running Linux distribution, preferably Ubuntu 14.04.3 or Ubuntu 15.04.

Readers can use a laptop or PC with a graphics card, and a RAM of 4 GB to 8 GB is preferred. This is actually for running high-end simulation in Gazebo and also for processing Point cloud and for computer vision.

The readers should have sensors, actuators, and the I/O board mentioned in the book and should have the provision to connect them all to their PC.

The readers also need a Git tool installed to clone the packages files.

If you are a Windows user, then it will be good to download Virtual box and set up Ubuntu in that. Working with Virtual box can have issues when we try to interface real hardware with ROS, so it would be good if you could work with the real system itself.