Developer Notes

Other software

• Lego Digital Designer
• Bricklink - Studio - web based

papers

• Simulating Lego Mindstorms EV3 robots using Unity and Python

EV3 C programming environment

• c4ev3 programming stock-firmware LEGO® Mindstorms® EV3 in C/C++.

Visual Editor Toolkits

• Google Blockly A JavaScript library for building visual programming editors.
  • can generate Javscript, Python code
  • Sample implementations
    • blockpy
    • Microsoft’s PXT
• Microsoft Programming Experience Toolkit (PXT), PXT is a framework for creating special-purpose programming experiences for beginners, especially focused on computer science education.
  • Blockly-based code editor along with converter to the text format
  • Monaco code editor that powers VS Code,
• Droplet The graphical programming editor that powers Pencil Code -
  • teaches programming in Coffeescript
• Snap Viual Block Editor - no code generation
  • A Scratch-inspired graphical programming language, it’s not a library but is instead a full app with an integrated execution environment.
• Project BIPES - Integrating Blockly, Micropython, WebREPL, much more!
  • Browser-based Block Integrated Platform for Embedded Systems.
  • Server Micropython compilation server
  • should work with EV3 - needs testers
  • based on Blopy

Arduino

• ardublockly-micropython
• Arduino - SparkFun Inventor’s Kit for RedBot

Raspberry Pi

• BluPants Robot - compatible with RaspberryPi and Beaglebone

Other 3D Robotics Simulators

• Student Robotics Competition Simulator - not for EV3, but Python based 3D robotics simulator
  • can pick up objects and move them in virtual environment
  • based on Webots (1.5GB!)
  • QT based

*Webots

• robotbenchmark - Program simulated robots online (uses Webots on backend)

• VEXcode VR - free online blockly type code (or Python) with 3D simulation environment; no line following attachment