BIPES VS PlatformIO

Hey u/okayElectronics , if I embed wokwi inside an iFrame, is there a way "API" to control it? For example, getting the serialized project or load a project to be parsed? I wish to integrate it with BIPES, so one could both use wokwi to simulate the circuit and program the actual board through the browser (using serial, tcp/ip or bluetooth (MicroPython)).

I have a WebBluetooth implementation channel.js (docs), webbluetooth class. It communicates with a terminal (xterm.js), but you could adapt to interpreter the message at line 697 and calling the gmaps API. Note: It comes in chunks, not complete line, so watch for "\n" to find the end of each packet.

If you need some visual help with MicroPython, you can try the web based BIPES ide (opensource, source). What you want to do look will look like this there (I made a silly tutorial to illustrate).

With this in mind, BIPES is a fully open source IDE (sourcecode), that tries to ease the (self) teaching of control theory by providing an all-in-one solution with sketching (both visual and scripting programming) and plotting, connecting to any MicroPython device via Serial, Bluetooth or TCP/IP, like the ESP32.

A full working demo is available at bipes.net.br/beta2/ui, the code at github.com/BIPES/BIPES and documentation at bipes.net.br/docs (generated with sphinx).

For the ESP32 in read mode, we've successfully developed a project using PlatformIO that accepts the key during build time and stores it in memory.

Check out Zephyr OS and Platform IO. Zephyr is part of the Linux foundation and has similarities to Linux with how it performs hardware abstraction (device tree). Platform IO integrates with other frameworks including mbed and Arduino.

PlatformIO together with avr-stub can be used to do source level debugging but there are some caveats.

Look into https://platformio.org/, it can abstract over a few RTOSes, and can show you which OSes work with which chips/boards.

If the HW looks like it works, you could also try alternate programming software. (e.g. TinyGo or PlatformIO)

You might have better luck with PlatformIO than the Arduino IDE; it's better at automatically choosing the serial port, though I can't say I've used it under Windows.

My other suggestion takes more work but will make your life oh so much better. Professionally I have used and highly recommend. https://platformio.org/ which is free!

Will you be doing embedded Linux? Embedded RTOS? Bare metal? Microcontrollers? SoC (say, FPGA with a hard processor core)?

You can do a lot with QEMU. https://bootlin.com/ has a lot of great, free training material.

https://bootlin.com/doc/training/embedded-linux-qemu/embedde...

is one of my favorites.

Learning to cross-compile, do embedded debugging, the process of booting an embedded system (which varies depending on the answers to the above questions), learning how to read a technical reference for the processor you’re using as well as for peripherals you’re likely to interact with - SPI, i2c, UART, maybe PCIe, are all handy skills. Learn a bit about JTAG, hardware, reading schematics, etc. Even being able solder is helpful.

There may be books (I had a great embedded Linux book when I started) but there are lots of online materials too. Check out https://platformio.org/

There are fun embedded boards and projects for microcontrollers too - micropython on an rpi pico, tinygo, eLua, etc.