A Unity simulation for various lab equipment
Anything I don't mention was pulled in automatically during setup of one thing or another
Collection of materials I created to texture things
Collection of reusable components
Collection of scenes
Contains results of my boredom during a day of nothing but meetings. I mocked out a cart, complete with trays and 'barcodes' and I was starting to greybox out the frame. Contains no actual functionality.
The beginnings of a tray elevator, complete with a stack of 25 barcodes to scan. Not currently functional as I was just moving it up but wanted to flesh out the actual 'stage' or 'axis' component to use here. Also contains prefabs for the tower safety light and the door request and system reset buttons.
This is the most complicated scene. This one creates stages that can have teachpoints set for them to allow us to effectively emulate real world linear stages. They can be communicated with via the on-screen buttons or if you have an MQTT broker running on your machine you can communicate with the stages via MQTT messages. I'm running Mosquitto because that's what the field team was using the last time I spoke with them. Any broker should work, however.
A place for shaders that will be used to render special effects. The current shader I'm working on is a text rendering shader to show the text value of the barcodes
Currently only contains a bitmap font I plan to use with the text shader
To communicate with this scene via MQTT you can use node-red to send the messages. I've included a folder with a JSON export of a very simple flow that sends the appropriate messages. If you are unable to import this flow into node-red I've included a step-by-step below.
Start by adding 4 inject nodes. For each inject node, double click it to open the properties and change the msg.payload type to string by clicking the dropdown on the right-side box (it looks like msg.payload = [Click this box]). Set the values to the 4 inject nodes to "Home", "TeachPoint1", "TeachPoint2", and "MaxExtents" (case-insensitive).
After the inject nodes are added, drag and drop an mqtt out node into the flow. Double-click it to open the properties and set the server to localhost:1883 (note that the port may be different if you're using a different broker). Set the Topic to unity/machine (might be case sensitive, I haven't tested it) and everything else can stay the default.
Now that you've created all of the nodes, simply wire the outputs from the inject nodes to the input of the mqtt out node and deploy your changes with the red Deploy button in the upper right of the node-red UI. Start the AxisTesting scene and you should now be able to control the stages by click the little square buttons on the left side of each inject node.