This tutorial is an introduction to using a Hokuyo laser scanner connected to a desktop. After reading this tutorial, you should be able to bring up the hokuyo_node and display the laser data.

This tutorial covers using the reconfigure_gui to dynamically reconfigure the hokuyo_node to run with different parameters. After reading this tutorial, you should be able to bring up the reconfigure_gui and change the hokuyo_node parameters.

After completing this tutorial, you will be able to reconfigure the parameters of the hokuyo_node from the command line or python code.