Hallo,
Does anyone know of an online tool or website that can create a flowchart complete with Arduino shapes and Arduino sensors?
I used Drawio, but I wasn't satisfied because there were no Arduino shapes, just boxes
Hi @horasjey. I think you need to step back and think carefully about what you are hoping to accomplish.
In most cases, I don't think it makes sense to use electronics components as nodes in a flowchart. At most, I would maybe put the individual nodes associated with a component into a "subgraph" dedicated to that component. But in this case you don't need a "shape" for the component, but instead would just title the subgraph with the component name. You should use the standardized node shapes in flowcharts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart#Building_blocks
Of course it is very valuable to document the electrical connections between electronic components, but that is done using a schematic diagram, which is different and separate from a flowchart. You will find that appropriate symbols for electronics components are available when you use schematic software. I would recommend using the free open source KiCad software.
If you are into spending oodles of dollars to program $3 board, Nat'l Instruments has LabView programming environment for Arduino...
thanks all
Hello horasjey
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I haven't used the web-based "yEd Live", but I have used the yEd desktop application. I found its user interface to be quite unintuitive, but I was happy with the results I got once I figured it out. Since that time, I have switched to using the Mermaid charting language to create all my flowcharts:
The reason I prefer Mermaid is because it is increasingly becoming the de facto standard for creating flowcharts and similar types of diagrams. This means it is best suited for collaborative projects (since collaborators are most likely to already be familiar with it). Platforms such as GitHub and Stack Exchange have Mermaid integration which makes it easy to publish these diagrams. I am also increasingly trying to avoid the use of closed source applications (yEd is closed source, Mermaid is open source).
There is an online editor for Mermaid, which allows you to preview the generated diagram and export the finished diagram as an image file:
If you are into AI, you might be interested to know that you can ask ChatGPT to make flowcharts in Mermaid. I haven't tried other AI services, but I would expect the ChatGPT alternatives can do the same.
From a quick test, I see that it is also able to do the same in the GraphML file format used by yEd (and in the alternative standardized Graph Modeling Language format as well), so Mermaid is not unique in this respect.
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