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 c...