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Embrio for Arduino.

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Has anyone seen or played wtih this visual, real-time development tool for Arduino programming yet?

Embrio - A visual, real time development tool for the Arduino

Program software for the Arduino in real time without writing code!

https://youtu.be/tiihsBPUkJ4

 

Kind of an interesting real time way to program.  Including waveform of the inputs and logic.

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I just found it today.  Check it out!

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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  • in reply to neilk

    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.

  • in reply to neilk

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