Blender to Poppy Torso Synchronizer

What is it ?

This project enable an animator to animate a robot in Blender (here the Poppy Torso) and see directly the motion rendered on the real robot.

Installing

Create a directory for the project and enter it:

mkdir BlenderPoppy
cd BlenderPoppy

Download and extract Blender 2.74:

wget http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/blender/release/Blender2.74/blender-2.74-linux-glibc211-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar xf blender-2.74-linux-glibc211-x86_64.tar.bz2
rm blender-2.74-linux-glibc211-x86_64.tar.bz2
mv blender-2.74-linux-glibc211-x86_64 ./Blender274

Install virtualenv from Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

Create a virtual environment at the root of the BlenderPoppy repository, then activate it

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.4 virtualenv
source ./virtualenv/bin/activate

Install BLAS and LAPACK libraries and Fortran compiler from Ubuntu repositories (needed to compile scipy, a pypot dependency):

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev gfortran
pip install pypot
pip install zmq