While the Jupyter ecosystem has been widely adopted by the Data Science and Machine Learning community, the robotics community has not jumped on the band wagon yet! Most tools around ROS, the Robot Operating System, are built using Python and QT.
However, using QT seperates the user away from the code. We've built an initial version of the ROS tools for jupyter notebook, trying to promote a rich, interactive experience for Robotics developers utilizing the power of the jupyter notebook.
With jupyter-ros, it's possible to easily create widgets for custom message types to send messages.
In the future, we plan to bring simple and fast real-time plotting from ROS topics to this library.
If you find this initial package useful, don't hesitate to contribute! You can also always reach out to w.vollprecht@gmail.com or on twitter: https://twitter.com/wuoulf