Although ROS is an amazing platform it can also be frustrating, especially for a hobby-roboticist like me. From packages only being available in one specific ROS version, to dependencies which don’t compile on your specific linux version, some problems already start when trying to install your software. But that is just the start for the hobby-roboticist. The flexibility of ROS theoretically allows for cheap robots to be built, but in practice it’s hard to get your odometry, mapping, and movements in general set up correctly if you don’t have any of the more standard supported platforms. In this talk I will go over my experience with ROS as a hobby roboticist, give tips to the developer community, and will introduce a new ROS package to make it more affordable to get started with robotics.