This project is a bit of a mess right now as I'm half way through
cutting across from C to MicroPython. I know I've just talked about
it at PyCon AU, but if you're interested in contributing, please give
me a couple of weeks to tidy up!
-- NickA visual dataflow language for educational robots, with a graphical editor which runs in your web browser.
I've been
playing with <http://nick.zoic.org/etc/mbots-using-nodebot-mblockly-and-arduino/>
educational robot programming environments and had
some thoughts <http://nick.zoic.org/etc/flobot-graphical-dataflow-language-for-robots/>
on how they could be improved, so this is an implementation of those ideas.
FloBot runs on the ESP8266 <http://esp8266.com/> platform and serves
up its graphical program editor via a built in webserver. No software
needs to be installed on PCs, and it works with any modern browser on PCs
or tablets.
FloBot is compatible with
NodeMCU <http://nodemcu.com/> (you can buy these on Ebay) or
Ciril <https://github.com/mnemote/ciril/> (my other project) hardware.
I'm doing this in a kind of document-driven-design kind of way, so here's some initial docs which describe features some of which don't exist yet:
Programmers Guide <doc/guide.rst>_WiFi Configuration <doc/wifi.rst>_Developers Documents:
To Do List <TODO.rst>_(Sketchy) Virtual Machine Spec <doc/vcode.rst>_There's no robot attached, but you can see the GUI working here:
Flobot live demo <https://rawgit.com/mnemote/flobot/master/www/index.html>_.. image:: doc/img/example.png :width: 90% :class: center