u/xiduzo

I am a teacher in (digital) design education and noticed my students were struggling to work with Arduinos. Even with AI, the Arduino IDE and C++ are an uphill battle to overcome.

So I built Microflow. A visual tool for wiring up interactive prototypes (Figma / web) to real hardware.

It sits in between Scratch (super basic) and TouchDesigner (super advanced).

It is completely free and open source, as it is mostly made to support my students; perhaps it can also help others!

Check it out at https://microflow.tech/ or check the code at https://github.com/xiduzo/microflow

It can control and listen to numerous actuators and sensors and works with Figma, MQTT, and local LLMs.

I recently bought a 120-bucks device (https://heypocket.com/ not a sponsor; please don't buy this device!) to find out it only really works if I have a “pro” subscription.

So out of frustration (and a bit of anger), I built my own tool to operate fully local on the devices you already own and that most likely use the same FREE (!!!) open software.

It's working, and I am personally happy with it. To see if there is some broader wish for such a tool and if I should polish and release it, please let me know at https://yap-yap.app/ !