🖱️ Blender6DofMouseAddon 🐭

Introduction 🚀

Blender add-on for the 6 DOF CAD mouse I'm building

It reads serial data from the mouse and transform it to translation and rotation data inside Blender to move stuff inside the viewport.

Dependencies 📦

• Blender 2.8 or greater
• Pyserial 3.2 or greater

Install PySerial for Blender

• Download the PySerial source code. The file you're looking for ends with .tar.gz
• Unzipp what you've downloaded
• Copy the serial folder, it is under PySerial\pyserial-3.2.1\serial (the version can change)
• Paste the folder in your blender modules folder, 2.83\scripts\modules, and now you should be able to use import serial

Actuall Blender Add-on 🧩

viewport_control.py

This is the actuall add-on to install

UI Description 📜

• Connect button - Connect to your mouse
• Port dropdown - The serial port the mouse is connected to
• Speed variable - A multiplier for adjusting mouse speed inside Blender
• Threshold variable - To remove drifting in joysticks
• Grayed out axises - Normalized (-1 to 1) real-time data being read from the joystics.

Screenshot 📷

Tests

Some small Python program I wrote to be able to iterate faster

Read Simulator

This is a simple python program that reads from serial. Useful for testing and you don't want to do it through Blender add-on

Write Simulator

This is a simple python program that writes to serial. Useful for testing and you don't have you Arduino hardware