Desktop Pet

Authors: Aditi Vinod, Lily Jiang, Luke Witten, and Richard Li

In an effort to combat the crippling loneliness that comes with being a nerd at nerd school, we created a "desktop pet," a little cat that will walk randomly around the screen and interact with inputs you give it.

Usage

Dependencies

Our system uses SDL to generate images.

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

If there are unmet dependencies, such as libegl-mesa0 depending on libgbm1, visit this link to debug

Because we want to make the system accessible to more image types, install the SDL2_image library!

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-dev
sudo apt-cache search SDL_image
sudo apt-get install libsdl-image-gst

Compilation

Our system compiles with CMake, and in order to use it you'll have to build it. Make sure you're in the desktop_pet directory, then run:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Afterwards, running

./scripts/main

From the build directory will bring up your own little friend :).

Interacting with your new friend

After you see the cat start to wander around the screen, you can do a couple of things

• Press spacebar to randomly vary the speed of the cat (it'll also do this on its own sometimes)
• Click on the cat to change its color!
• Esc to exit