olivierbrcknr

Go for it! It's fun!

Thank you! Looking forward to hearing about your experiences!

Thank you for the appreciation!

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.

We intend to, but as we are working on this project on the side, there is no real timeline yet, sorry

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To get started, right now we recommend https://www.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Beginner-Kit-for-Arduino-p... (not all the components are supported by blokdots yet, but we are working on that).

Thanks for sharing!

Sorry, we designed and coded it ourselves

Thank you for the tip! We will have a look at it!

When exporting the code, every card is built into an own function, all in one file. The eventListeners are created on board setup. It is using the johnny-five API → http://johnny-five.io/api/

You can see the basic structure of the generated code here: https://blokdots.com/documentation#Code-Export

Arduino requires you to install a software to bridge this serial port issue.

Yes, we are working on it for Windows at least. As we are doing this project on the side, I unfortunately am not able to tell you when the Windows version would be released. A PWA is not possible at the moment due to the missing access to the serial ports, but once this is granted, we intend it as well!

Hey! Thanks a lot for the appreciation! Yes, as we need access to the serial port to connect with the Arduino, we currently need to rely on a native app, the browser does not allow us to do so at the moment. If this would be the case in the future, we would consider this of course as well.

Hey! Super glad to be featured on Hacker News! Olivier here, one of the founders of blokdots. Let me know if you have some questions.