Bonescript Visual Blocks Editor : Suggestions

[Vaishnav Ma]

Hi,

I am Vaishnav, an undergraduate student from Kerala,India, I would like to know the opinion of fellow group members about a project idea i have i my mind :

I would like to develop a Blocks Editor(similar to MIT App Inventor/Microsoft Blocks Editor:for micro:bit) for , i am planning to build a blocks editor as a top layer interface on top of the BoneScript library and Cloud9 IDE , so that BeagleBone users without much Scripting experience can develop their projects easily. What do you think about the scope of this project?Please provide suggestions.

Regards
Vaishnav

[Mark A. Yoder]

Vaishnav:

  Sounds like an interesting project.  I had a student to a similar project[1] based on Google's Blockly[2].  I made a few refinements to it[3], but haven't worked on it lately.

Doing block programming in Could 9 sounds like a neat idea.

--Mark

[1] https://elinux.org/ECE497_Project_Programmable_Light_Show 

[2] https://developers.google.com/blockly/

[3] https://github.com/MarkAYoder/BeagleBoard-exercises/tree/master/displays/LEDstring/light-show

[Vaishnav Ma]

Mark: 

Thank You for your valuable feedback , the Programmable Light Show project looks very nice :) , after some searching i found that a basic blocks-editor to generate bonescript code already exist here .

I am planning to work on improving this project to add more functions and direct sensor support blocks.

Regards

Vaishnav