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Embrio for Arduino.

4ringfan

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 took a look to the site and as a matter of fact it sounds great (but not new at all). What put me a bit more prejudicial is the fact that they sell the IDE, and frankly I think it is not the worth.

     

    Take in account that the same arduino IDE has its basis on the original Processing IDE and on top of it there is a language (I don't remember the name but I have used it in past) that works in the same way of embrio, part of the tools for the development of hardware / software integrated elements, Arduino an so on that is absolutely free and open source.

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Enrico,

     

    I understand the reservations to the $30 fee to purchase and I agree that it may not be something that everyone is interested in, but I honestly thought that it had a fairly clean functionality and decent polished look to it.  I know that the basic premise of the software is nothing new, but sometimes an old wooden wheel gets replaced by a nice rubber one with air in it.  There is generally more than one way to accomplish the same goals and progress sometimes moves forward and back.  I am probably going to put Embrio through its paces.  If I like it, I'll pony up the $30 dollars.  If not, well, there is always the free wooden wheel Arduino IDE that still works or maybe I give mBlock or 12blocks a try.

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  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Enrico,

     

    I understand the reservations to the $30 fee to purchase and I agree that it may not be something that everyone is interested in, but I honestly thought that it had a fairly clean functionality and decent polished look to it.  I know that the basic premise of the software is nothing new, but sometimes an old wooden wheel gets replaced by a nice rubber one with air in it.  There is generally more than one way to accomplish the same goals and progress sometimes moves forward and back.  I am probably going to put Embrio through its paces.  If I like it, I'll pony up the $30 dollars.  If not, well, there is always the free wooden wheel Arduino IDE that still works or maybe I give mBlock or 12blocks a try.

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  • in reply to 4ringfan

    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.