Extend Viam with modular resources

Viam’s Robot Development Kit (RDK) provides built-in support for a variety of resources:

Various types of hardware components.
High-level functionality exposed as services.

However, if you want to work with a new hardware component that is not already supported by Viam, or want to introduce a new software service or service model to support additional functionality on your smart machine, you can extend Viam by adding a modular resource to your smart machine.

Click on the cards below for instructions on implementing modular resources through modules or remotes:

Tip

Modular resources provided by custom modules are the preferred method of creating custom resource implementations.

Adding a custom component as a remote is recommended if you are hosting viam-server on a non-Linux system or have another issue with compilation.

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