Lonely Arm

    A robot arm implemented in C++ using GLUT, GLU and Open GL. The 
program is composed by an Arm that moves on a Platform in 3D space

    The arm has two modes. Sliding and flying. When on the sliding
mode its movements are limited by the platform limits and it can rotate 
its arm, forearm and hand. When on flying mode it can not rotate its 
parts and the hand changes to a propeller and the arm is free to fly 
over the 3D space

• If you do not wants to compile the program, this repository keeps a binary file compiled with the latest version of the Lonely Arm program. So just clone this repository and run it :)

• To compile the program you will need to install the freeglut library that brings the GLU, GLUT and open GL to your operacional system and install g++ compiler and GNU make program:

• On openSUSE

sudo zypper install freeglut freeglut-devel make gcc-c++

• On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev make g++

• On Mac OS X

OpenGL headers and other necessary development tools are installed by a separate developer tools package, Xcode. Xcode can be downloaded from here
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

Alternatively install the required packages using Homebrew
# Tap into homebrew/versions where GLFW3 lives and install it
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install glfw3
# Install glew
brew install glew

• Installed the dependencies, clone this repository
• go to the Lonely-Arm directory and run:

make run

• It will compile, then run the Lonely Arm program that is placed in Lonely-Arm/bin directory

• enjoy the Lonely Arm :)

• space

Rotate the camera looking fixed to the arm

• up | down

Zoom in/out over the arm

• ctrl + left | right | up | down

Moves the arm on the platform

• f

Set the arm to the Flight mode. You can fly usings the arrows left | right | up | down. If 'f' is pressed again it stops the flight mode, then the arm starts to fall on the space. If the arm fall, the program decrements its life. You can save the arm by setting the flight mode again pressing 'f'

• r

Resets the arm and the camera to the initial position

• 1

Sets the Selected Part to Arm. Press left | right to rotate arm

• 2

Sets the Selected Part to Forearm. Press left | right to rotate forearm

• 3

Sets the Selected Part to the Hand. Press left | right to close/open the hand

Written by Gustavo Pantuza

Report Lonely Arm bugs to [email protected]