Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation

Prototype application and firmware/driver for device described in "Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation" [Jacobson et al. 2014].

Dependencies

Building on Linux is significantly easier than on Mac OS X. Building on Windows is probably possible, but never tested. The major issues arise from the use of FTDI which is poorly supported on Mac OS X.

• c++11
• ftd2xx
• libigl
  • eigen3
  • openGL
  • tetgen
  • mosek
  • glut (preferrably patched to support mouse wheel and command key)
• boost
• alut (optional for user study apps)
• openAL (optional for user study apps)
• matlab (this is a silly requirement, I'm just using the .mat file format to store the skeleton data)

Installation

On Mac OS X, one must first install an old version of the ftd2xx drivers. See http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=2934

If you have previously installed the ftdi usb serial drivers then you will need to uninstall them or "unload" them every time you restart your computer:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext/

or

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBFTDI

Install the above dependencies and then (crossing fingers) issue:

cd driver/generic
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
cd ../../ftdi
mkdir build
cd build
make
cd ../../unix
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
cd ../../../application
make