First things first, you need to install Apple’s Developer Tools, they either come in your Extras DVD or you get them from Apple’s Developer site, they are free but you need to register.

Once you have the dev tools, you need to install premake 3.7 and premake 4, this is because ODE svn sources needs premake4 and roboSimu sources are made for premake 3.x.

So go ahead and download premake 3.7 and premake 4, unzip and copy the premake and premake4 binary into /usr/bin.

Next you need to install ODE, currently drawstuff is broken with the latest ODE 0.11.1 so we need to get the sources using subversion (if you don’t have subversion get the package installer here).

So run:

svn co https://opende.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opende/trunk ode

Now to compile ode run this:


cd ode
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-double-precision
make
cd build
premake4 gmake
cd gmake
make config=debugdoubledll


After this you should have libode_doubled.dylib in ode/lib/DebugDoubleDLL.

Now into roboSimu, go to Demura’s instructions and you’ll find roboSimu090614.zip along with instructions to build on Windows and CodeBlocks.

Unzip roboSimu sources and copy the files into ode/roboSimu.

Now we need to copy the ode and drawstuff libs into ode/roboSimu/DebugLib.

Standing inside ode run this:


mkdir roboSimu/DebugLib
cp lib/DebugDoubleDLL/libode_doubled.dylib roboSimu/DebugLib
cp drawstuff/src/.libs/libdrawstuff.a roboSimu/DebugLib/libdrawstuffd.a
cp drawstuff/src/libdrawstuff.la roboSimu/DebugLib/libdrawstuffd.la


Almost ready!, I promise!

Now you need to edit roboSimu/roboSimu.lua edit line 77 and add the following:


--table.insert(package.links, { "GL", "GLU" })
table.insert(package.linkoptions, {"-framework OpenGL", "-framework GLUT"})


Save and quit and now it’s time to compile!


cd roboSimu
premake --target gnu
cd src
make


If everything goes well you should see this:


==== Building amotor ====
Linking amotor
==== Building arm1 ====
arm1.cpp
Linking arm1
==== Building arm2 ====
arm2.cpp
Linking arm2
==== Building arm3 ====
arm3.cpp
Linking arm3
==== Building bounce ====
bounce.cpp
Linking bounce
==== Building hello ====
hello.cpp
Linking hello
==== Building hopper ====
hopper.cpp
Linking hopper
==== Building hopper2 ====
hopper2.cpp
Linking hopper2
==== Building hopper3 ====
hopper3.cpp
Linking hopper3
==== Building legged ====
legged.cpp
Linking legged
==== Building monoBot ====
monoBot.cpp
Linking monoBot
==== Building omni ====
omni.cpp
Linking omni
==== Building pk ====
pk.cpp
Linking pk
==== Building sensor4 ====
sensor4.cpp
Linking sensor4
==== Building slope ====
slope.cpp
Linking slope
==== Building wheel1 ====
wheel1.cpp
Linking wheel1
==== Building wheel2 ====
wheel2.cpp
Linking wheel2
==== Building wheel4 ====
wheel4.cpp
Linking wheel4


Note that all the example binaries will be inside ode/roboSimu/DebugLib. Enjoy!

Check out the photos here and the instructions of the plugin here.

First, of course, install ushare, I won’t give details because it changes from system to system, I recommend you to use your distribution package system to get this one installed.

After the install you need to add a multicast route so the upnp discovery protocol can work, add this to your /etc/rc.local if you want this to run on each boot, just change eth0 to your real network interface.

route add -net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 eth0
ifconfig eth0 allmulti

Either run that manually now or reboot, after that you should see your route like this:

[root@tangerine ~]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
239.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 eth0
default         Lucius          0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

Now edit ushare config, mine is at /etc/ushare.conf

# /etc/ushare.conf
# Configuration file for uShare</code>
 
# uShare UPnP Friendly Name (default is 'uShare').
USHARE_NAME=uShare
 
# Interface to listen to (default is eth0).
# Ex : USHARE_IFACE=eth1
USHARE_IFACE=eth0
 
# Port to listen to (default is random from IANA Dynamic Ports range)
# Ex : USHARE_PORT=49200
USHARE_PORT=
 
# Port to listen for Telnet connections
# Ex : USHARE_TELNET_PORT=1337
USHARE_TELNET_PORT=
 
# Directories to be shared (space or CSV list).
# Ex: USHARE_DIR=/dir1,/dir2
USHARE_DIR=/home/shared/multimedia
 
# Use to override what happens when iconv fails to parse a file name.
# The default uShare behaviour is to not add the entry in the media list
# This option overrides that behaviour and adds the non-iconv'ed string into
# the media list, with the assumption that the renderer will be able to
# handle it. Devices like Noxon 2 have no problem with strings being passed
# as is. (Umlauts for all!)
#
# Options are TRUE/YES/1 for override and anything else for default behaviour
USHARE_OVERRIDE_ICONV_ERR=
 
# Enable Web interface (yes/no)
ENABLE_WEB=yes
 
# Enable Telnet control interface (yes/no)
ENABLE_TELNET=
 
# Use XboX 360 compatibility mode (yes/no)
USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX=yes
 
# Use DLNA profile (yes/no)
# This is needed for PlayStation3 to work (among other devices)
ENABLE_DLNA=no

Notice the USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX=yes?, turns out that in the default config file the option is named just ENABLE_XBOX which doesn’t work, the correct option name is USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX. Now after your config is OK you should start ushare, then go to your xbox, select multimedia -> videos and press X button to load videos from another source, if everything is OK there you should see your uShare source.

Thanks to this blog, I found the config flag fix. All kudos and greets to that guy.

Enjoy.

Basically Copilot takes all the hassle out, put your name in a box or create an account, they’ll bring you back a number, tell your client/friend/family to write the number down on copilot.com download and install the software. Once both have the software running Copilot will connect them and you’ll have access to the computer. That’s it!, simple, easy, fast, brilliant. No configuration, nothing. It has various pricing options but I found out that the day pass it’s free on weekends and $5 on any workday so we go ahead and tried that (I’m a cheap bastard, I know), and oh yeah, it works on OS X and Windows, which is even better.