Wavecake – An IDE for web serial and web Bluetooth

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The story: Hi all. I'm a freelance firmware developer. I work on a lot of Bluetooth projects in addition to standard regular embedded systems. I'm a big proponent of writing scripts to test the devices I work on. In the past, I've worked on teams that rely on manual testing via a phone or UART terminal. It's frustratingly slow to test that way. I've become pretty good at writing scripts in various languages from node to python to Objective C. I still have issues with sharing though. Getting people to run the scripts to reproduce errors involves lots of friction that comes from installing the software. I'm obsessed with the potential of web serial and web bluetooth to solve these issues for me and the projects that I work on. However, I found that a lot of online code editors prevent people from running these APIs. Existing web code editors are also optimized for people writing web apps. They emphasize showing the HTML and CSS etc. I wanted to create a code editor that was optimized for embedded systems developers. So here we are. I made yet another web IDE. The project: I built an IDE that supports web serial. It’s built for embedded systems developers who want to check out web serial but are not so familiar with web development software. In addition to running web serial code, I’ve also added a few elements that I think could be helpful to embedded developers. 1. UI development - support for buttons, text, and charts 2. Code sharing - easy to store and share your code with coworkers 3. Scripting API wrapper - A little user friendly polish on top of the web device APIs. The script API makes it easy to wait for responses from the device. 4. Support for web bluetooth and MQTT

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