# Share **URL:** https://forum.hello-robot.com/c/share/11.md [Latest](https://forum.hello-robot.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.hello-robot.com/categories.md) --- ## [About the Share category](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/about-the-share-category/257)
**Author:** [@hello-ck](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/hello-ck)\ **Replies:** 0
Share what you’ve been doing with Stretch. We love the community forming around the Stretch RE1. We’ve created this category to encourage people to share with each other in an informal and friendly way. --- ## [Summer 2026 with Stretch](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/summer-2026-with-stretch/1524)
**Author:** [@Shwarma0207](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/Shwarma0207)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/summer-2026-with-stretch/1524 "2026-08-14T16:23:40Z")
Hello everyone! My name is Ishaan. Through my internship this past summer, I had the chance to work with Stretch in the context of finding use cases in assistive technology. Going into the internship, I had just finishe… --- ## [My Summer with Stretch :)](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/my-summer-with-stretch/1441)
**Author:** [@hello\_afifah](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/hello_afifah)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/my-summer-with-stretch/1441 "2026-01-28T17:52:55Z")
Hello Stretch Forum! My name is Afifah Kashif, I graduated last June with a bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Washington (Go Dawgs!) and am now at the University of Cambridge for my masters in Human I… --- ## [Implementing contact detection for dynamixels](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/implementing-contact-detection-for-dynamixels/868)
**Author:** [@jesusrdz](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/jesusrdz)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/implementing-contact-detection-for-dynamixels/868 "2025-01-28T20:37:47Z")
Greetings Stretch community! My name is Jesus Rodriguez and I’m currently an intern here at Hello Robot. I wanted to share with you something that I’ve been working on these past weeks. Please note that this is only an … --- ## [Custom LED Eyes for Stretch](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/custom-led-eyes-for-stretch/1106)
**Author:** [@Rafael\_MM](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/Rafael_MM)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/custom-led-eyes-for-stretch/1106 "2024-09-18T16:56:15Z")
Hello Hello Robot community, I am pleased to present a project I worked on while at Oregon State University. This project was developed by Sean Buchmeier and myself (Rafael Morales). The project involves a custom LED m… --- ## [Trajectory Optimization, Tablet Showing, Visual Servoing, and More!](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/trajectory-optimization-tablet-showing-visual-servoing-and-more/1082)
**Author:** [@hello-lamsey](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/hello-lamsey)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2024, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/trajectory-optimization-tablet-showing-visual-servoing-and-more/1082 "2024-08-27T06:27:08Z")
Hi y’all! I’m Matt Lamsey, and I’m a robotics PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This summer, I have been interning with Hello Robot, where I have had the opportunity to work on several interesting proj… --- ## [Exciting New Features for the Stretch Web Interface!](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/exciting-new-features-for-the-stretch-web-interface/1068)
**Author:** [@hello-amal](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/hello-amal)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/exciting-new-features-for-the-stretch-web-interface/1068 "2024-08-09T01:34:54Z")
Exciting New Features for the Stretch Web Interface! Hi Stretch Community! My name is Amal, and I’m a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington. I spent the summer interning at Hello Robot, where I did frontend and … --- ## [Issue with ArUco Locator: Transform Not Published Due to Logging Argument Error](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/issue-with-aruco-locator-transform-not-published-due-to-logging-argument-error/1058)
**Author:** [@allen](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/allen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/issue-with-aruco-locator-transform-not-published-due-to-logging-argument-error/1058 "2024-07-26T18:25:05Z")
Hi, I’ve been debugging the ArUco locator from this tutorial, and I’ve encountered an issue where the transform is not being published when an ArUco tag is found. I discovered that the problem was due to an argument is… --- ## [Whole Body Trajectory Optimization for stretch](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/whole-body-trajectory-optimization-for-stretch/934)
**Author:** [@michalciebielski](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/michalciebielski)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2024, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/whole-body-trajectory-optimization-for-stretch/934 "2024-06-12T08:33:29Z")
Hi everyone, previously I shared a way to perform whole body IK for the stretch and I have recently extended this to perform whole body trajectory optimization. You can find a couple examples which should run out of the… --- ## [Whole Body Trajectory Optimization: Experiments and Code](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/whole-body-trajectory-optimization-experiments-and-code/1011)
**Author:** [@hello-lamsey](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/hello-lamsey)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/whole-body-trajectory-optimization-experiments-and-code/1011 "2024-06-11T14:58:51Z")
Hi y’all! I’m Matt Lamsey, and I want to share some recent work from my summer internship with Hello Robot. We have been experimenting with whole-body trajectory optimization for Stretch, first explored by Michal Ciebie… --- ## [Stretch Community News - January 2024](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-january-2024/925)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-january-2024/925 "2024-02-28T21:52:24Z")
Welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! For the Hello Robot community, 2023 was a year filled with new publications, research projects, open-source code, and conferences around the world. Stretch even made … --- ## [Stretch Community News - December 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-december-2023/923)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-december-2023/923 "2024-02-26T19:45:01Z")
Welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! Last month, we had the opportunity to connect with many of our community members at NeurIPS, especially at the Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation workshop where we a… --- ## [Stretch Community News - October/November 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-october-november-2023/876)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-october-november-2023/876 "2023-12-20T00:06:52Z")
Welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! We’ve had a great time getting to meet so many community members at IROS and CoRL recently. Thank you for stopping by to say hello! This update, we have open-source i… --- ## [My experience and work during my internship](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/my-experience-and-work-during-my-internship/874)
**Author:** [@jesusrdz](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/jesusrdz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 16, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/my-experience-and-work-during-my-internship/874 "2023-12-16T22:06:26Z")
Hello Stretch Community! I’m Jesus Rodriguez, an undergraduate student at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico, currently interning with Hello Robot. This semester has been an exciting journey, allowing me to enhance my s… --- ## [Navigate and clasified objects at the same time](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/navigate-and-clasified-objects-at-the-same-time/852)
**Author:** [@Humberto\_Andres\_Hida](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/Humberto_Andres_Hida)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/navigate-and-clasified-objects-at-the-same-time/852 "2023-12-05T02:55:24Z")
Hi, I want to share with you a launch file to use the deep perception node and the navigation node at the same time. It is simple, but maybe is useful to someone that wants to use the both nodes. \ \ **Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-september-2023/830 "2023-10-17T17:59:57Z") Welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! Last month, Stretch got to meet hundreds of you at IROS in Detroit, a great event that concluded with research from Meta and Georgia Tech presented live on Stretches … --- ## [Spring 2023 - Stretch course projects](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/spring-2023-stretch-course-projects/746)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/spring-2023-stretch-course-projects/746 "2023-09-27T23:15:45Z")
Hello Stretch community! With summer upon us, I wanted to share with you some of the great work being done in class projects at universities around the country over the past semester. Project-based learning has been very… --- ## [Stretch Community News - August 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-august-2023/805)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-august-2023/805 "2023-09-09T00:15:03Z")
Hello again and welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! This month, we have publications from RO-MAN and PETRA, a new simulation of Stretch, and an update on our ROS 2 development! Read on for details of the… --- ## [Pickup and Handover Object to Person Using ArUco Markers](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/pickup-and-handover-object-to-person-using-aruco-markers/692)
**Author:** [@jgangemi](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/jgangemi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/pickup-and-handover-object-to-person-using-aruco-markers/692 "2023-08-31T17:20:36Z")
Hi all! We recently created a demo showcasing Stretch autonomously picking up a hat off the floor and handing it over to someone. We call the system “SIRA” or socially interactive robot assistant, and built it on top of… --- ## [Stretch Community News - July 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-july-2023/782)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-july-2023/782 "2023-08-04T00:53:00Z")
Hello again and welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! This month, we’ve added some new items to the open source Stretch Tool Share - there’s an swivel mount for an end-of-arm tablet, and a new accessory sh… --- ## [Stretch Community News - June 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-june-2023/765)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-june-2023/765 "2023-07-07T00:39:32Z")
Hello again and welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! If you’d like to see your work featured in a future newsletter or on the Stretch Community Repo , drop us a line at community@hello-robot.com. Pro… --- ## [Stretch Community News - May 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-may-2023/748)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-may-2023/748 "2023-06-01T01:06:03Z")
Welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! If you’d like to see your work featured in a future newsletter or on the Stretch Community Repo, drop us a line at community@hello-robot.com. In order to follow o… --- ## [Running Stretch RE2 with adaptive controller](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/running-stretch-re2-with-adaptive-controller/539)
**Author:** [@Rafael\_MM](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/Rafael_MM)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/running-stretch-re2-with-adaptive-controller/539 "2023-05-26T21:37:50Z")
Hey everyone, My name is Rafael Morales I am a Robotics master’s student at Oregon State University. I focus on HRI (human-robot interaction) and I am currently working with children who have a type of motor impairment.… --- ## [Stretch Community News - April 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-april-2023/694)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-april-2023/694 "2023-04-26T18:56:56Z")
Welcome to the second monthly Hello Robot community update! If you’d like to see your work featured in a future newsletter or on the Stretch Community Repo, drop us a line at community@hello-robot.com. The teams at … --- ## [Jupyter notebook tutorials](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/jupyter-notebook-tutorials/298)
**Author:** [@Aarju](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/Aarju)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/jupyter-notebook-tutorials/298 "2023-04-20T01:55:26Z")
Hello Stretch Community! My name is Aarju Goyal, I recently graduated from University Of Southern California with my Master’s degree in Computer Science and I’ve had the amazing opportunity to intern at Hello Robot this… --- ## [New tablet mount on Stretch Tool Share](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/new-tablet-mount-on-stretch-tool-share/660)
**Author:** [@aedsinger](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/aedsinger)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/new-tablet-mount-on-stretch-tool-share/660 "2023-04-05T18:21:23Z")
Hi everyone. Just a quick heads up that we’ve release a simple way to mount a tablet to the wrist of your Stretch. It uses an off-the-shelf phone holder, allowing the tablet to be manually adjusted as well: Find it on t… --- ## [Stretch Community News - March 2023](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-march-2023/645)
**Author:** [@bmatulevich](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/bmatulevich)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-march-2023/645 "2023-03-22T19:45:35Z")
Hello everyone! We’ve heard some feedback that our community would like more ways to discover what other Stretch users have been up to. We hope that periodically sharing some of this great work will help the Stretch Comm… --- ## [Autodocking demo in ROS](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/autodocking-demo-in-ros/634)
**Author:** [@chintujaguar](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/chintujaguar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/autodocking-demo-in-ros/634 "2023-03-13T17:28:01Z")
Hello community members! Keeping in line with our motivation to release new development to users as soon as it is in a usable state, I wanted to inform everyone that we have beta software for autodocking out for review.… --- ## [Nvidia Jetson accessory for Stretch](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/nvidia-jetson-accessory-for-stretch/541)
**Author:** [@Mohamed\_Fazil](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/Mohamed_Fazil)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/nvidia-jetson-accessory-for-stretch/541 "2023-03-02T17:32:24Z")
Hello everyone. We’ve gotten a number of inquiries from the community about integrating a Nvidia Jetson with Stretch. We’ve also seen a few enterprising groups already working with a Jetson on Stretch. Given the strong i… --- ## [ROS support & development](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/ros-support-development/30)
**Author:** [@hello-ck](https://forum.hello-robot.com/u/hello-ck)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/ros-support-development/30 "2020-06-11T20:56:39Z")
Hello everyone, Binit Shah (@bshah) and I (@hello-ck) are involved with software support and development. We each have a robot from the first production run. I’ve got mine in my home in Atlanta, Georgia and Binit has … [Next page](https://forum.hello-robot.com/c/share/11.md?page=1)