Embrio for Arduino.

Thanks for share. I will try it today. Looks great!

I wonder if there is a way of intercepting the code sent to Arduino IDE since that is what they claim to do.

I have tried Embrio, then tried too the original object code program Embrio has been derived and it sounds interesting. As a matter of fact my personal opinion - accordingly with Neil - frankly I think it is not the worth. Personally I remain of the idea that Processing has the same design (few colours eheh) same object organisation and so on, with the difference that it support Arduino and give the possibility to generate and see the code.

But despite all the bare technical disquisitions that probably depends much by personal feelings with one tool or another, to me this Embrio seems ... a dog in a church. In the scenario of the open hardware level of Arduino, processing for graphical interface video and easy hardware to software connection and the Pure Data that integrates perfectly with the others I think it is a complete environment. Adding to this that the last Processing features enable the entire system for professional applications at several levels.

The only thing I find a bit hard to understand is the fact that these tools (Pure data and Embrio but I am not 100% sure with this last) always needs a pc with the entire environment to run. Take in account that as I wrote in a post above in this discussion ( Download | mBlock ) I have tried mBlock and it is also opensource and free distributable. It is oriented to the projects of this mBlock robotics company but can be used to make interesting applications for Arduino independently. Always with a clear visibility of the code. And this fact to see the code I consider it very important both for those that want to discover how things are done and for those that can use these tools to create a working base (instead starting from scratch) then making their Arduino code perfect  following their personal programming style.

I downloaded and tried the free version of  embrio - it's quite neat although you have to get into the way of thinking. I followed the tutorial to create the classic "Blink" program and it does work.

However, there doesn't  seem to be a way of viewing the effective code and when you press the button to compile and download the code, it tells you that you need a full licence. So, is it worth it?

Mike,

what I mean was not a prejudice on the thing itself. I mean that this - and it is not the only - is one of many tries to "move" the opensource approach to something commercial based on the ignorance of the users, especially the newbies. In the meantime it is my personal opinion that these lines of development that, I repeat, are almost away from the philosophy of the approach of the open concept that stay behind this class of products like Arduino, projects, community and the involved software, are not the great news that seems to be.

Do you like C/C++ programming, electronics on Arduino experimenting etc? There is the C language adopted by the Arduino IDE (that is very crap respect many others. Then there is the Eclipse alternative with the Arduino plugin, just to make an example.

Want to connect Arduino with a PC and get more? Try Processing, I have developed several things in past and it is a very good language tool.

Want to explore something that I found astonishing the first time I saw it? Really object oriented whose project is older than the Embrio approach that is mentioned in this discussion? Take a look to Pure Data and you discover that not only is almost similar but - it is my opinion - it has more possibility than Embrio and is more flexible. As a matter of fact is that despite that it approach the same way of Embrio, Pure Data go ahead supporting also other languages integration with compilers or compiled softwares at all.

Frankly what I don't agree so much is the creation of a commercial - high or low price it is a choice, but the approach is and remain commercial at all despite the price - product competing with an entire echo-system of opensource and open hardware + creative commons documentation and projects without trying a commercial but different approach (for example I consider a good idea what is doing Digia with Qt)

Not last consider that Pure Data (aka PD) is not the only pure object programming language, as it is defined as

Pd is a major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, DesireData, etc.), originally developed byMiller Puckette at IRCAM. Pd was created to further the Max paradigm by extending data processing to applications other than audio and MIDI, such as real-time video and web interaction.