This will only get better with time. I’m currently coding a way to record & play back the sixi simulation.
Oh! If only I had a kinect bar! I could put the point cloud into the simulation, and then the driver could see the block in the app. I will have to settle for a raspicam and VLC on the local net.
This is a big interest of mine because of my work on the Makelangelo Software. The software converts a photo to lines by starting with Stippling, where dots are put on the picture in a meaningful way. Everything that flows from there starts with good stippling. Wang Tiles are the current best method, prove me wrong.
I don’t have a way to make wang tiles as described in this video yet. If I had a set I’m confident I could do the rest in short order.
He also had great feedback to improve the Delta Robot calculator I wrote long ago:
https://www.marginallyclever.com/other/samples/fk-ik-test.html
After nearly a week of screaming at my monitor, I finally got a new system for rotating and translating Sixi2’s hand.
Which (technically) worked, but was super hard to do well.
In the future I may even remove the need for the shift key so that everything can be done with a mouse or a touch pad or maybe even a sip+puff.
I tried several things that didn’t work out, like using OpenGL’s Select Buffer. I also notice the rotation handles don’t stay inside the grey circle when they are in the far corners of the screen and I don’t have an answer for that yet.
If you want to read the code in the open source project, start in org.marginallyclever.robotOverlord.DragBall
Also much love to https://www.scratchapixel.com/. Their 3D graphics tutorials kept coming up when I searched for things I needed in Robot Overlord. If you want to learn 3D graphics it is a clean, simple, effective resource.
