Barnabas Blocks is derived from several open source projects based on Blockly, the web-based, graphical programming editor. The core was started as a fork from BlocklyDuino to provide language blocks and code generators for arduino programming and other elements have been added from Chromeduino2
Reference Document about using this project with Chromeduino
- Programming Arduino with visually drag and drop code blocks
- Generate fully compatible Arduino source code
- Interactive Arduino board with 10+ predefined Grove sensor blocks
- Load different on-site examples with url parameters
- Theme choice
This is a web tool. You can give it a try at https://code.barnabasrobotics.com.
If you want to install it locally:
git clone https://github.com/BarnabasRobotics/Online-BlocklyDuinoEditor.git
You can then use a local server in your IDE or an extension with your browser and going to a url like localhost/public/blockly/demos/blocklyduino/index.html for use.
- Open browser to BlocklyDuino, Drag and Drop blocks to make arduino program.
- Select 'Arduino' tab to copy source code to Arduino IDE
Uploading the code to an arduino is currently a work in progress with eyes on WebUSB or WebSerial
To avoid the tedious step of manually pasting code to the Arduino IDE, you can run a mini webserver that uses the Arduino IDE to upload the code to a connected Arduino board on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. Invoke this command from the BlocklyDuino root folder:
python arduino_web_server.py
You can optionally specify the port with --port=COM3 (or --port=/dev/tty.foo on Linux and Mac); if you don't, it will try and guess which port to use.
When the webserver is running, you can access BlocklyDuino itself on http://127.0.0.1:8080/.
- Open browser to BlocklyDuino, drag and drop blocks to make an Arduino program
- Select the 'Arduino' tab and copy all of the source code into an existing or new project in the Arduino IDE
- Press the 'Upload' button in the Arduino IDE to burn the code into a connected Arduino board
OR (if running ino_web_server.py):
- Open browser to BlocklyDuino, drag and drop blocks to make an Arduino program.
- Select the 'Arduino' tab and press the 'Upload' button. (press the 'Reset' button to upload an empty program)
Check changelog here
Fred Lin @gasolin is the creator of BlocklyDuino.
BlocklyDuino is a web-based visual programming editor for Arduino.
BlocklyDuino is based on Blockly, the web-based, graphical programming editor. Provide static type language blocks and code generators for Arduino programming.
Thanks Neil Fraser, Q.Neutron from Blockly
The project is also inspired by ardublock and modkit Thanks Dale Low (gumbypp) for contribute the python server to pipe BlocklyDuino source to arduino board.
Thanks Arduino and Seeeduino guys for Arduino and Grove blocks.
makewitharduino is work by @okhiroyuki
There has been some interesting chatter on Chromeduino perhaps some of these projects find a way to merge together.
Copyright (C) 2012~2015 Fred Lin [email protected]
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