Hi,
we are working on many hardware projects. Many times we are using
Arduino hardware with avr gcc combination. To make you just a little
picture this is one of our projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL04xaUqkUU
If you are developing projects like this you are changing a lot of things
to tune your solution. Some of them are very hard to change e.g. complex
state machines. Many times we are working with students and they are
sometimes skilled in different area e.g. mathematics and are not very good
at coding.
We saw and ware using many "promising" solutions for rapid developement
but all of them failed. Therefore we started from scrach to address this
issue and we decided to create a hardware engine.
The requirements for this harware engine ware:
- to be able to use standard programming language
and third party libraries - fast and easy realtime debuging
- team oriented developing
- understandable for people from different area
- generating dash boards and UI for Smart devices
- the solution must be standalone, that means you can
disconnect the hardware from the computer
Now we are in BETA testing and this solution is available for everyone
for free. We are almost done and some features needs to be implemented.
You can download the engine from: http://visiduino.io.
If you want to test the Android application download it from here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.visiduino.bluetooth
The actual thing we are implementing is called VNI: Visiduino
Native Interface. VNI is a technology to interconnect your code/libraries
with our engine.
If you want to know what you can already do with Visiduino:
- 80% of coding for the above video was done with Visiduino, well
you can't do image processing for Kinect in Arduino (the missing 20%) - 100% of code for this little robot was made under
60 min.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pyZGf26mY
Please don't mistake this project with LabView/Simulink or any
so called "no programming required" solutions. We ware using all of them
for more than 8 years. We are creating something we will be using
every day to accomplish our work.
If you have any questions feel free to use our new forum:
https://visiduino.io/sk/forum/
Now go and enjoy Visiduino 
Lubo