Make Annex RDS accessible to KIDS.
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:47 am
Hello,
I'm interested in helping kids learn robotics (ESP8266 & Arduino boards) via software tools based on visual blocks programming. (Blockly derivatives)
After a long journey of search, I finally make the great discovery of Annex RDS : the fantastic tool that makes programming ESP8266 devices directly from a tablet POSSIBLE. But there is a missing puzzle!
I propose to the brilliant developpers of "Annex RDS" to make it the number ONE and MOST used tool for ESP8266 programming, via making it accessible to KIDS.
This will be only possible by adding a "Visual Programming" web tool that will generate Annex Basic code from blocks.
The browser based tool (an unzipped folder containing index.html start file) will be downloaded from github and saved locally on the kid tablet.
There is the stable framework Blockly@rduino that can be used for that aim.
Blockly@rduino generates arduino C/C++ code.
So we only need to add the code stub generators that will generate the Annex "Basic" code.
The new created web tool may be called Blockly@nnexRDS.
The "Basic" generated code will be copied from the Blockly@nnexRDS web page to the Annex RDS embedded EditArea and runned from there as usual.
Thanks for your attention.
I'm interested in helping kids learn robotics (ESP8266 & Arduino boards) via software tools based on visual blocks programming. (Blockly derivatives)
After a long journey of search, I finally make the great discovery of Annex RDS : the fantastic tool that makes programming ESP8266 devices directly from a tablet POSSIBLE. But there is a missing puzzle!
I propose to the brilliant developpers of "Annex RDS" to make it the number ONE and MOST used tool for ESP8266 programming, via making it accessible to KIDS.
This will be only possible by adding a "Visual Programming" web tool that will generate Annex Basic code from blocks.
The browser based tool (an unzipped folder containing index.html start file) will be downloaded from github and saved locally on the kid tablet.
There is the stable framework Blockly@rduino that can be used for that aim.
Blockly@rduino generates arduino C/C++ code.
So we only need to add the code stub generators that will generate the Annex "Basic" code.
The new created web tool may be called Blockly@nnexRDS.
The "Basic" generated code will be copied from the Blockly@nnexRDS web page to the Annex RDS embedded EditArea and runned from there as usual.
Thanks for your attention.