Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually
blokdots.com
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However, it just doesn’t ring true to say this is building prototypes without code.
“If Button is pressed times, then LED should switch on” is code!
This is essentially a graphical scripting language, in the vein of something like ‘scratch’ but with much nicer visuals.
Yes you are right, yet for the non-coder target group it seems less scary like that ;)
I always thought that 'scratch' gets rather complex rather quickly and hence that the IFTTT approach might be easier to understand for someone who is not familiar to programming in general.
That would be helpful for students who often aren't able to install software on school computers, people who have chromebooks, or people like me who don't like running native apps unless they're sandboxed somehow.
In any case, I hope you're successful here - very exciting project!
will report back. site looks slick and product looks absolutely brilliant
I carry a stock of ESP32's at home for stuff that falls into a domain where this might be useful, especially if this has the ability to convert a given signal into a stream of MQTT messages. This seems marginally easier than firing up a new esp-idf project (although that's possibly because I haven't built up the muscle memory to have the right GPIO incarnations stored).
The code export is probably the killer feature here, so when you get to the point where working in the GUI is limiting, you can export it and switch to editing source code. I don't have a Mac handy, I'm curious what the export looks like. Is every card a different file? Is there an event loop that "listens" for these events? Or does it just generate a big main function?
You can see the basic structure of the generated code here: https://blokdots.com/documentation#Code-Export