The instructions in the wiki of pyBullet got me thinking, that I could use a proper IDE on the linux machine. I’m too old to learn emacs, and I’m not doing this in vi.
pyCharm is pretty good for Python.
But the Bullet Engine examples are all in C++, so I went with Eclipse CDT https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ for a nicer experience.
So Eclipse needs Java. So I installed java with
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
Unpacked gzip tar file and deleted it
tar xvf eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz rm eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
As an interlude from checking out Blender/phobos, I saw that the big free robot technology effort of the 2010s was probably ROS, the robot operating system, and as it has been around for a long time, it has had its own established ways, in the pre-phobos days. Before these kids could just click their doodads and evolve silicon lifeforms when they felt like it.
So yeah, what the hell is catkin? So, it’s like how ruby on rails wants you to ask it to make boilerplate for you. So we had to run:
0 mkdir chicken_project 1 cd chicken_project/ 2 ls (nothing here, boss) 3 mkdir src 4 cd src 5 catkin_init_workspace 6 cd .. 7 catkin_make 8 source /opt/ros/chicken_project/devel/setup.bash
So, starting 53 seconds in:
https://youtu.be/qi2A32WgRqI?t=53
Ok so his time guesstimate is a shitload of time. We’re going to go for the shoot first approach. Ok he copy-pastes some code, and apparently you have to copy it from the youtube video. No thanks.
So this was his directory structure, anyway.
cd src catkin_create_pkg my_simulations cd my_simulations/ mkdir launch cd launch/ touch my_world.launch cd .. mkdir world cd world touch empty_world.world
That is funny. Touch my world. But he’s leading us on a wild goose chase. We can’t copy paste from youtube, dumbass.
