Steps

see https://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/CustomMessagePublisherSubscriber(python) for details on how to customize

1. create the scripts directory and pull talker and listener examples

   ```bash roscd thorlabs_linear_actuator/ mkdir scripts cd scripts

   pull talker and listener

   wget https://raw.github.com/ros/ros_tutorials/kinetic-devel/rospy_tutorials/001_talker_listener/talker.py chmod +x talker.py wget https://raw.github.com/ros/ros_tutorials/kinetic-devel/rospy_tutorials/001_talker_listener/listener.py chmod +x listener.py ```

2. Customize scripts as needed

3. Make project

   bash cd ~/code/code_idealab_ros/ catkin_make