Multiboard programming using Johnny-Five robotics and IOT Platform
Arduino boards can be programmed using Arduino software (or in Visual Studio Community using Arduino Extensions) and Intel IOT boards can be programmed using Intel XDK IOT.
Using JavaScript to program controllers would be very useful as most
browsers are HTML5 compliant. The Johnny-Five Robotics and IOT program
is an interesting option.
Johnny-Five is the JavaScript Robotics and; IOT platform released by the Bocoup group. Johnny-Five is maintained by a growing number of talented developers.
What is Bocoup?
Bocoup is a group that championed the cause of Open tools and WorkFlow. They really seems to have people with very varied and diverse talents to tackle web, data, and visualization.
How does Johnny-Five handle the Hello World (or Blink for that matter)?
It looks like 1-2-3 really.
1. Install Node.js(Preffeer 4.2.1 LTS)
2. Setup your board
3. Run: npm install johnny-five
What else is needed?
You also need to run the Firmata protocol for the controller board to communicate with the computer.
Interestingly Johnny-Five can handle over 30 different arduino compatible boards from the likes of Raspberry, Intel, Arduino, Sparkfun and many more.
This is very impressive indeed as each of these boards are handled by their vendors like Arduino, Intel and others.
How about non-arduino boards?
There are platform specific IO Plugins (for example, Galileo-IO plugin) .These plugins can speak the language of the platform as they implement Firmata compatible interfaces.
You will be hearing more about Johnny-Five in my blogs, here and here, keep reading....
Johnny-Five is the JavaScript Robotics and; IOT platform released by the Bocoup group. Johnny-Five is maintained by a growing number of talented developers.
What is Bocoup?
Bocoup is a group that championed the cause of Open tools and WorkFlow. They really seems to have people with very varied and diverse talents to tackle web, data, and visualization.
How does Johnny-Five handle the Hello World (or Blink for that matter)?
It looks like 1-2-3 really.
1. Install Node.js(Preffeer 4.2.1 LTS)
2. Setup your board
3. Run: npm install johnny-five
What else is needed?
You also need to run the Firmata protocol for the controller board to communicate with the computer.
Interestingly Johnny-Five can handle over 30 different arduino compatible boards from the likes of Raspberry, Intel, Arduino, Sparkfun and many more.
This is very impressive indeed as each of these boards are handled by their vendors like Arduino, Intel and others.
How about non-arduino boards?
There are platform specific IO Plugins (for example, Galileo-IO plugin) .These plugins can speak the language of the platform as they implement Firmata compatible interfaces.
You will be hearing more about Johnny-Five in my blogs, here and here, keep reading....
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