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Blockly@rduino: Create Code with Blocks

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The purpose is to permit 'Scratch-block' programming for Arduino card, with many features needed for kids in school &amp; newbies.Everyone knows Scratch and the way it made easy the program learning for every child in the world. The next step was to use it to control material and that's why the extension possibilities were great: LeapMotion, Arduino, Wii, Picaxe, etc. But extension use is 'only connected' real time programming, so the 'Graal' was to find a software which permits blocks programming and code generating. I found <a href="https://github.com/BlocklyDuino">BlocklyDuino</a> but it was left unworked for months. After contacting its creator David Li I decided to create my own fork.After few months, with help, I created a totally new version from the original <a href="https://developers.google.com/blockly/">Blockly</a> new version: <a href="http://blocklyarduino.technologiescollege.fr/">Blockly@rduino</a>.<h3 >Video resume</h3><div class="se-component se-video-container __se__float-none" contenteditable="false" style="width: 100%;"><figure style="width: 100%; height: 56.25%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/197565157" data-proportion="true" data-percentage="100%,56.25%" data-size="100%,56.25%" data-align="none" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" data-index="0" data-file-size="0" data-origin="100%,56.25%"></iframe></figure></div><h3 >What you can do</h3>Choose card and language:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/a74d699c-790b-4766-aa54-f80476cda761.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Choose between on line upload (thanks to <a href="https://codebender.cc/static/plugin">Codebender plugin</a>) or offline upload (thanks to <a href="https://github.com/technologiescollege/Blockly-rduino-communication">Blockly@rduino-communication</a>):<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/e7effdce-7808-42b2-b834-fde971a6de07.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Communicate with card in real time to test input/ouput, thanks to <a href="https://github.com/MrYsLab/pymata-aio">FirmataPlus </a>from Alan Yorinks wonderful work:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/c2e10aad-556a-47e3-97d0-b4480a6080ce.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Choose between different level of difficulty for your student, and have a specific list of blocks:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/b1f85179-78bf-457f-895d-3f6c6e8f0a88.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Choose if you use or not in a list of blocks, always growing:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/93428e7b-0d4f-4c71-ae2f-8302c02c3e0b.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Drag'n'drop block to program:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/57f04a83-e5ac-4375-b51a-044954507d5c.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>See Arduino code updating in real time:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/87b127eb-16ea-4bfb-9ec0-f0c79ca1b377.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Edit Arduino code, save it, paste it to local IDE:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/e783efe5-2f97-4605-a884-db6df783f6ec.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Or use Codebender plugin to upload:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/30e5fe31-baef-45a3-a2d1-1af49566c7c5.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>And communicate by serial port:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/dce24660-60d7-43b6-a86d-5c00abc15dd5.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Choose in a list of example:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/73e52cd3-dc60-4d23-8013-5ca16a00d595.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Create your own example:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/4bbe45a4-f033-4ec3-9fe6-2c8ef0ddacae.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>Choose not only card, but specific '<code >kit</code>' prepared with specific categories of block and prepared pinout for student:<figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/fb801e9e-85d1-4289-a53c-f855e315081d.jpg /><figcaption> </figcaption></figure>And many graphic enhancements! And many more yet to come, like enhancing accessibility.

Blockly@rduino: Create Code with Blocks

Based on Blockly and BlocklyDuino, here's a multilingual enhanced version with supervision, upload, multi-level blocks, etc.