the site is being updated
The Biomaker site is being expanded to cover new approaches to low code programming and improved hardware. The old site with extensive resources that employ XOD as a visual programming environment is linked here as an archive. Revised material that describes new tools and projects will be compiled here (biomaker.org) and openrig.tech
The Biomaker platform...
Biomaker is an open source resource that helps to enable researchers, students, and hobbyists to build scientific instruments and experimental setups using off-the-shelf components and open source software. The Biomaker training platform has been based on a series of microcontroller boards including support for a variety of hardware components, such as microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators, as well as a set of software tools and libraries for programming and controlling these components. We have been using a visual programming language for Arduino-compatible microcontrollers, XOD (xod.io) which provides a dataflow model for programming interactive devices. However, recent years have seen the emergence of more powerful hardware and disruption of the development of XOD. The organisers, Matt Wayland and Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge are developing updated resources for Biomaker, which are described on this website.
The aims of this update of Biomaker are to (i) support modern ESP32 microcontrollers which provide dual benefits of improved performance and low cost; (ii) adopt a free environment that allows no-code/low-code visual programming and a pathway to Python; and (iii) integrated development of graphical interfaces for producing touchscreen-based user interfaces.
biomaker.org
Jim Haseloff
Cambridge, England
New York, USA
www.biomaker.org