Johnny-Five is the JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform. Released by Bocoup in 2012, Johnny-Five is maintained by a community of passionate software developers and hardware engineers. Over 75 developers have made contributions towards building a robust, extensible and composable ecosystem. The only kit designed for getting started with Johnny-Five! The Johnny-Five Inventor's Kit, from Bocoup and SparkFun, is now available! It's designed for anyone who wants to get started with JavaScript-powered robotics. The J5IK includes a Tessel 2, and everything else you need to do 14 experiments! No programming or soldering experience is required. Microcontrollers and SoC platforms like to say "Hello World" with a simple blinking LED; the following demonstrates how to do this with the Johnny-Five framework.
Features
- Johnny-Five has been tested with a variety of Arduino-compatible Boards
- For non-Arduino based projects, platform-specific IO Plugins are available
- IO Plugins allow Johnny-Five code to communicate with any hardware in whatever language that platform speaks!
- JavaScript can be used to control hordes of small robots, creative maker projects, and IoT devices
- With the Node.js ecosystem at hand, hardware prototyping gets fun, intuitive and fast
- Johnny-Five wants to be a baseline control kit for hardware projects
Project Samples
