I explain how I made a 2D simulator for robotics from scratch in C++. I'm going to use this to help me write the application code for my sumo robot.

0:00 Background
1:40 Goals
2:48 How?
4:35 Physics (Box2D)
7:00 Graphics (OpenGL)
10:10 Software Architecture
13:13 Controller code
15:00 Main loop
16:14 Reflection

🌍 Related links
Bots2D code - https://github.com/artfulbytes/bots2d
Bots2D blog post - https://www.artfulbytes.com/bots2d-blogpost
Great Box2D tutorials - https://www.iforce2d.net/b2dtut/
Graphics tutorials - https://www.youtube.com/@TheCherno

🌍 Find me here
GitHub - https://github.com/artfulbytes
Website - https://www.artfulbytes.com

👨‍💻 About me
Hi and welcome. I'm Niklas, an embedded systems engineer from Sweden. On this channel, I make practical videos about embedded systems or, in general terms, about building and programming hardware.

#simulator #2d #robot #embeddedsystems

Artful Bytes

A developer shares their journey building a 2D robotics simulator from scratch using C++ to test sumo robot application code before deploying to hardware. The project combines Box2D physics engine with custom OpenGL graphics, implementing a component-based architecture with scene objects, physics simulation, and a voltage line abstraction for hardware interface compatibility. Despite the learning experience in graphics programming and software architecture, the author reflects that using existing simulators might have been more pragmatic.

I made a Robot 2D Simulator with C++ | Embedded System Project Series #25