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I am interested in Espruino web IDE (https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoWebIDE), especially because it has blockly integrated. I am currently working my thesis about robotic education and I will use micropython to teach basic robotics in junior high school. It is very challeging because junior high school here do not learn programming or at least basic alghoritm knowledge. I think by using visual programming like blockly I can introduce basic algorithm and robotics programming an easy and fun way.

I just want to hear if anyone here that has begin to build the same project that we can collaborate or then I will start to build this.

Nope. That's certainly an interesting project, useful for some share of community, but it's still waiting someone who *really* need, up to actually working on it. It seems that's you . And +1 for the idea to look at adapting EspruinoIDE - I'd look in that direction myself.

Also see http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=629

I has began this project, and you can check the codes in this repo https://github.com/yllumi/micropythonIDE.
Firstly I am willing to use node-webkit but I get problem by nodejs programming. So then I decided to use Chrome App as it has provided serial API to connect to serial.

This is interesting and worth working on. I tried your code but on (Linux) Chrome there is no "chrome.Event" class so the serial interface did not work.

I think both this avenue and the IPython one are worth further exploration.

Thanks Damien. This app is Chrome App because we need serial API provided by Chrome API to access serial port.
I do not submit it yet to Chrome Webstore because it is still under development. But if you want to try it, you can install the Chrome Apps Developer Tools (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... e-ntp-icon) and use it to run the unpacked app. Simply click the "Load Unpacked.." button and choose the micropythonWebIDE folder.

Another approach to accessing serial ports is to do something like what ChiliPeppr http://chilipeppr.com/ has done (this is a CNC control program).

It uses a small helper app called serial-port-json server which actually connects to the serial port. There are currently Mac, Windows, and Linux variants of the serial port JSON server.

The serial port JSON server is here: https://github.com/johnlauer/serial-port-json-server
If you scroll down the README file there are links to precompiled binaries for various platforms.

Wow, nice information. I first thought that the only way we can connect the board from web is using Wifi.
I will try it to this project. Thanks, Dave!