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UArm control from Openframeworks

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Aaman-tiwari
Last edited Dec 17, 2015
Created on Dec 17, 2015

This example demonstrates how to control a UArm robotic arm through serial communication using openFrameworks. The code sends positioning commands by writing an 11-byte instruction packet to the device, which includes cylindrical coordinates (x, y, z), hand rotation, and gripper state. It relies on the `ofSerial` API to establish a connection and transmit bytes, with the setup specifying a USB port and baud rate. The `setArmTo` function encodes the parameters into the required binary protocol before calling `writeBytes`; program exit flushes the serial buffer. The example shows the low-level data formatting needed to interface with custom hardware.

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