Arduviz, a visual programming IDE for arduino

Abstract

Arduino is an open source computing platform in a form of single-board microcontroller. The microcontroller in Arduino is reprogrammable. Officially supported way to program Arduino is by using Arduino language and Arduino IDE. Another way to program an Arduino board is by using visual programming approach. Language used in visual programming approach is called Visual Programming Language. Commonly used existing tools that enable a programmer to write Arduino program visually are Ardublock and miniBloq. Both of those tools have their own strength. But, because those are separate tools, a programmer can't use all of those strengths to create a program. We have implemented Arduviz, a visual programming integrated development environment. Arduviz has most of advantages from both Arduviz and miniBloq such as instant code generation and stand alone development environment.