Embrio for Arduino.

4ringfan

4 Apr 2015

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

https://youtu.be/tiihsBPUkJ4

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

I just found it today. Check it out!

Top Comments

mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to 4ringfan +4

A very clever local guy does a similar product called '12blocks' called that because you only need 12 blocks to do most stuff. http://onerobot.org/products/12blocks/ It has an advantage of being multi…
balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to neilk +3

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…
clem57 over 10 years ago +2

I have gone through some of the tutorials and see what it was about. It takes Arduino code then cleans with encapsulated code formalizing inputs and outputs. This allows the blocks to be diagrammed visually…

clem57 over 10 years ago

I have gone through some of the tutorials and see what it was about. It takes Arduino code then cleans with encapsulated code formalizing inputs and outputs. This allows the blocks to be diagrammed visually. The downside is the libraries you use need to be put into this frame work before usage. Not too great. Why did he not use classes that would be more natural instead of this funky blocking stuff?
Clem
- Cancel
- Vote Up +2 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
4ringfan over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

Mark,

I'll look into 12blocks further. I guess I just did not see the real time feedback portion of it. I only saw the block style programming.

Thx!
- Cancel
- Vote Up 0 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
4ringfan over 10 years ago 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.
- Cancel
- Vote Up 0 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to 4ringfan

Mike
I think you'll find 12blocks gives the feedback and also allows the variables to be changed on the fly.

Mark
- Cancel
- Vote Up 0 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel
balearicdynamics over 10 years ago

Take a look to this, I will do asap. It seems it is the worth.

Download | mBlock
- Cancel
- Vote Up +1 Vote Down
- Sign in to reply
- More
- Cancel