Accessible GUI-driven robot programming for your product

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Overview

Accessible GUI-driven robot programming for your product

Description

Roblocks is an accessible Graphical Programming Tool which enables basic robot programming for everyone. By configuring an outgoing JSON-protocol and recognizing this, you can link the Roblocks-GUI to your robot / product. This enables other people to control your robot, while hiding your back-end and complicated code. This makes the product an option for expositions and to let people create programs. Also fit for education purposes.

Overview

Installation

Navigate to the releases tab, i.e. Releases

From here you can download Roblocks for Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Launch the executable to startup Roblocks, it should work out of the box.

The application has been verified to run on Apple Silicon (M1).

After the installation create your toolbox configuration .json file, as the example displayed here.

Usage

Add / Remove Node(s)

Select the Visual Edit window (center) and click the "add (+)" button. To remove a Node, select it (click), and click the "remove (-)" button.

Add / Remove Operation(s)

Select a node (click) and click the "add (+)" button. To remove an operation, select it (click), and click the "remove (-)" button.

Configure Operation(s)

Click on an operation inside a node and click the "settings" icon.

Compile to .json file

Click on "File", "Save Project" to save your project to the selected location on your disk.

Change read / write location

Click on the app logo "RB", "Preferences" to adjust the paths for reading and writing. After closing the window the toolbox.json will be reloaded, if no previous file was loaded.

Hiding / Showing views

Click on "View" and select the windows you would like to show / hide.

Log

A more detailed log can be viewed by navigating to "View" and click on "Expand log".

Configuration (Roblocks Protocol)

Documentation

Building

This section is inapplicable if you just want to use the application, and not tweak the Source code.

The application has been built using IntelliJ Community Edition and uses the libraries gson-2.8.6 and json-simple-1.1.1. Make sure to include these as libraries using your prefered methods.

Comments
  • Splashscreen

    Splashscreen

    Nice application. I think the splashscreen is a great addition to make it feel more professional. I wonder who you got that idea from. Anyway, I was thinking it should be visible a little longer.

    opened by 198cm 1
  • Invalid HTML-markdown in Protocol documentation (Alpha 0.1)

    Invalid HTML-markdown in Protocol documentation (Alpha 0.1)

    The protocol documentation contains invalid characters, somewhere along the conversion to .html this somehow went wrong. This results in odd typo's and invisible characters.

    The next version will migrate from a local .html file to the file on GitHub, so updating will no longer require a new release to be built.

    bug 
    opened by jetspiking 1
  • Bugs

    Bugs

    Post the bugs you noticed here.

    Known bugs:

    • Dark mode toggle doesn't change arrow color after existing nodes.
    • Node renaming doesn't immediately compile to .json.
    • After switching from dark to light theme duplicate nodes can be added, due to the color being part of the compare.
    • There is no application save, dark mode and paths are therefor not saved.
    bug 
    opened by jetspiking 0
  • Wishlist

    Wishlist

    The current codebase is reaching it's limit in terms of functionality, maintainability and User Experience.

    Which functionalities, features, UI-improvements would you like to see in the release (non-alpha / non-beta) build of Roblocks? Post your ideas, mockups, screenshots and everything you would like to see here.

    enhancement 
    opened by jetspiking 0
  • Design system

    Design system

    Design system

    The Roblocks design system is maintained in this figma project. In the design system you will find all designed components and interface guidelines, for both Roblocks and Roblocks Web.

    For design feedback, leave a comment in this topic.

    Roblocks is an open source visual programming environment that should make the process of programming robotics fun and accessible: therefore it is important that a design system is used.

    happydesign

    enhancement 
    opened by jaschahuisman 0
  • User Interface Enhancements

    User Interface Enhancements

    From usability-testing the following improvements were found and should be implemented in the next iteration:

    • Launching and using the application for the first time is time-consuming, since no tutorial is present. A future version could benefit from a short tutorial that appears on launch, which explains all actions and possibilities.
    • The .json file could contain color codes for the Toolbox-items, so the colors are no longer randomly generated and will appear equal on all processes of Roblocks. This will make referring to items by color more easy, for example during a video call.
    • The Add (+) and Remove (-) button are not very intuitive, this could be improved a lot by a drag and drop system or by giving component or blocks their own Add and Remove button. This is also the case with the "Settings icon".
    • The output-view currently appears default on the left of the screen. This should be changed to invisible by default, the average user will not benefit of this view. The position of the Window might also be something to improve.
    • The log contains both expert and user messages, this should be unambiguous.
    • Create demonstration and explanation video for the UI.
    enhancement 
    opened by jetspiking 4
  • Feature Requests

    Feature Requests

    Are you missing features in Roblocks? Leave a message below and explain what you would like to see, your idea might be implemented in a future release!

    enhancement 
    opened by jetspiking 0
Releases(1.0)
Owner
Dustin
Computer Science student from The Netherlands.
Dustin
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