I managed to wire a slider to my Virtual DJ, but with moderate success... There is lot lot of stuff to learn! I realized that Unity is really some developers app.

But I still think it is worth exploring...

@fxrtst found something here... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2fe3/62a693efe416aecc6eea35e95225ec357f23.pdf

Yeah i saw that robot engine. Its a few years old. But they implemented alot into it. doesn't seem to have continued development. But might have some keys to getting values out of unity.

I'll post my progress tomorrow with the other plug in. I'm playing with IK rigs now. Trust me there is a bit of a learning curve with Unity but its possible to do everything with plug ins and no coding.

We can set up and rig all the EZ Robots digitally in Unity and have available for everyone to try. Then others wont have to go thru what we are doing for the EZ Robots.

I had said earlier I'd be happy to do a whole video series on this one the bugs are worked out.

I'd start by downloading the free Ardunity plug in i suggested at the beginning of this thread, its free and at least you can get some servos working. Maybe you can figure out how to capture the outgoing rotational values from with in the plug in and send them to ARC?!

Hey I just wanted to edit my post, to say its not up to date with the lastest Unity Enigine!

Please post the stuff you figured out so far, it'll help me to safe time and get our POC up and running as fast as possible...I won't mind spending a few bucks on plugins!

BIO IK still top of the list? I wanted to give it a try today...I guess you really do not need to use the Arduino Plugin, it'll just cost time to set it all up!

Let's find out how to share projects? Would be cool to have a Virtual JD for the forum? It could be on GitHub or maybe straight out of Unity?

We can set up a dropbox if you want to share project stuff or I think there is a cloud based collaboration in the top right part of screen of unity. Not sure how that works with dependencies like plug ins etc.

I bought both the IK plugs and messing around with a simple rig to control a couple servos. The 3D puppet is my favorite for ease of use, but looking for limits etc at the moment. Easy weight painting. Bio Ik has a a really easy way to set limits...so still on the deciding. I'm Setting up a scene for each plug in. Then see where i run into problems if any.

EDIT, I do like the ease in and ease out of the motion from Bio IK

You could try opensim or Second Life, has a good scripting language and you can make external calls.

If I get a chance I will try and make a remote control in second life that talks to the ARC http server plugin. This way you could have a remote control that would control both a virtual model of the robot and the real robot at the same time so any avatar in Second Life could control the robot in the real world. You could probably also feed the video from the robot into second life so the person controlling the robot (and any other avatar in world) could see what the robot sees. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlHTTPRequest

Hey guys I put together a 12 min video of where I've been able to go so far. Please bare with me as this is the first screen capture ive done. Micrphone needs to be worked out.

I've managed to connect two servos to a characters head and got them to move based on rotational values. The character was rigged with IK (inverse Kinematics) in 3D Puppet. Used the flaky plug in (ArdUnity) until we can get a good pipeline going.

Problems or 'to do list':

I am looking into why I cannot get rotational values from Bio IK rigs. (Edit: Working now) Need to look into animating motion on a time line. Need to get Unity to talk to ARC and get a servo to move on the EZB Do we need to set up limits in Unity or do it on the EZ side? Do we need a unity EZ plug in? Do we need an ARC plug in for Unity?

@fxrtst: What is the Unity Role ? A Modeling tool ?