Blockly4Arduino Chrome Extension

Extension will use AVRGIRL-Arduino to flash hex-files to Arduino boards from the Chrome-browser.

Requirements

• Google Chrome installed.

Development

Install the following tools globally:

1. npm install -g browserify;
2. npm install -g http-server.

To develop this further or make changes:

1. Edit background.js (not background.bundle.js);
2. Always run browserify background.js -o background.bundle.js each time you change background.js or lib/flash.js, and then manually reload the chrome app;
3. When you reload the chrome app, you'll also need to refresh index.html so the page can reconnect to the reloaded chrome app.

Run the extension with the Compiler server of Blockly4Arduino

To run the demo with the Compiler server repository:

1. Fork and clone or download this repository (https://github.com/RMeurisse/Arduino-Builder-chrome-extension);
2. Run npm install within the newly cloned local repo;
3. Run browserify background.js -o background.bundle.js;
4. In your Chrome browser, visit chrome://extensions;
5. Click Load unpacked extension;
6. Navigate to this cloned repo, and click Select;
7. Click Launch when you see the extension appear at the top of the extensions list;
8. Copy the id value of the extension, and update var extensionid = '...'; line in index.html of the Arduino-Builder repo;
9. See the Arduino-Builder repo to run the nodejs-server;
10. Plug in an Arduino, and write some code in the textbox. Finally hit the 'upload'-button.