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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!

  • 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.

  • Mike, that looks amazing; thanks for posting it!

     

    Neil

  • in reply to mcb1

    THAT looks almost EXACTLY like what I used to make iphone apps.  I feel like the block type of programming both simplifies and limits the capabilities.  Still a great teaching tool none-the-less.

     

    The real time feedback values in embrio, for me, set it apart from being a simple block programming tool.  Being able to visually see what your inputs are getting and what your outputs are doing in real time, I feel, is very useful.

     

    Check out this video:

    https://youtu.be/LPhGw923wiU

  • in reply to 4ringfan

    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 platform.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to lokkytron

    Thanks!  I especially liked its use in helping determine the sensitivity of various sensors, so that you could set the triggers at the right point.  Takes some of the guessing out of it.  I kind of like the translation of the inputs into a portion of 1 too.  I have no problem delving into the code side of things, but this certainly would make the programming side of things easier for some people that are looking for plug and play control of the arduino without the coding.  This is flexible enough to allow for those of us that can code to create our own widgets that we can then graphically arrange and plug and play with.  I dunno, I found it interesting.  Reminded me a bit of a graphical programming IDE that I used once to build applications for the iPhone.  Can't remember the name of that now though.

     

    I am a bit surprised that I have not seen more comments on this post.  I did not see any reference to embrio on E-14 when I searched for it prior to posting this, so I assumed it was something that nobody had seen previously, but maybe I'm wrong.