Visuino at Maker Faire LA 2026 (And a very special Visitor! ;-) )

Yesterday, I was presenting Visuino at the Maker Faire LA 2026. The event was organized together with the City of Stem,  and hosted at the Los Angeles Exposition Park :-)

My good booth neighbor was Michael Wernecke with his cool, fully functional Scratch-built 5-Foot Radio-Controlled Submarine!

It was a huge event with over 30000 visitors, and it was extremely exhausting. I barely found time to snap a few pictures between the visitors, and here are some of them:

The Robots prepared for the journey to the Maker Faire:

Me at the booth in the morning, still unpacking the robots:

The booth is ready for the first visitors:

The booth with my good neighbour Michael Wernecke, and his cool Submarines and other models:

The "Imagination Stage", where at 3:30PM I showed off what Visuino can do, and the audience had the chance to drive some of my robots :-)

Everyone is rushing to set up the booths in the morning:

Vivienne Byrd from the Los Angeles Public Library came to visit me at the booth:

And a surprise visitor!!! :-)
No other than the Maker Queen Xyla Foxlin herself!!!

The first visitors appearing:

My presentation was the usual mess, improvised as always, but this time I did it fully interactive, having the crowd play with my robots from the biggest Kuman WiFi all the way to my smallest BugC:

And sadly at the end of the day, it was time to pack and prepare to head back home:

All the robots and toys are packed and ready for the trip back:

Altogether, it was another fantastic event, and I really enjoyed it! 

Although it was my 3rd Maker Faire LA, it was a very busy and tiring event, and I was exhausted at the end, but no price was high enough for the chance to meet in person Xyla Foxlin herself :-)

Looking forward to attending more fun events in the future and presenting Visuino, my robots, and toys to the excited crowd!

Come to see Visuino in action at the Maker Faire LA 2026 this Sunday April 26, 2026

I will be at Maker Faire LA 2026, presenting Visuino this Sunday April 26, 2026 9 AM - 5 PM

https://losangeles.makerfaire.com/

Visuino will have a Booth - R11, and I will have a live presentation at the Imagination Stage at 3:30 :-)

Please come and enjoy the Free Maker Faire and Visuino!

Address:

Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California

Here is a map with the Visuino booth R11 marked:

And the Schedule for the Imagination Stage (S13). My session is the last one at 3:30 PM:

 Hope to see you all there :-)

Cheers,

  Boian

Come and meet me at the Hub101 Nerdfest, to see Visuino in action and join the Visuino lab to build your own projects!

 This weekend (Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 1) I will be at the Hub101 Nerdfest:

HUB 101,  31416 Agoura Road #105, 

Westlake Village, CA

https://www.hub101.org/nerdfest

For now, the plan is for me to be there on Jan. 30 between 4 and 6 PM and will have a table showing Visuino, and then Jan. 31 between 4 and 6 PM will have a room for Visuino Lab, where you can come and build your own projects with Arduino, ESP32, ESP8266, and other micricontrolles controllers, and even Raspbery Pi :-)

I most likely will be available outside this timeframe, so we can meet and have fun at the Nerdfest or talk Delphi or Visuino :-) .

Hope to see you there and have a great time together! :-)

Don't forget to bring your Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, or whatever controllers you have to the Visuino Lab! ;-)

Visuino at Maker Faire LA 2025

 Last Saturday, I was presenting Visuino at the Maker Faire LA 2025. The event was organized together with the City of Stem,  and hosted at the Los Angeles Exposition Park :-)

My good booth neighbors were the fantastic folks from Conejo Valley Makerspace!

It was a huge event, with tens of thousands of visitors, and it was extremely exhausting. I barely found time to snap a few pictures and a short video between the visitors, and here are some of them:

The Visuino booth:

And here I am at the Visuino booth :-)

Me and Maddie Warner - the Admin & Communications Coordinator of the LA STEM Collective!

One of my cool neighbours - the maker of the Octo-Capitol:

The presentation tent with the maker of ISS Above presenting:

The people watching my Visuino presentation:

One of the robots passing by the Visuino booth:

Some of the visitors:

And finally, a short video of the morning rush to prepare the booths:

Altogether, it was a fantastic event, and I really enjoyed it! 

This, being my second year at the event, things went smoothly, and my live presentation was successful :-)

Looking forward to attending more fun events in the future and presenting Visuino to the excited crowd!

Just released the 8.0.0.145 version of the OpenWire Studio!

 I have just posted updated version of the OpenWire Studio:
https://mitov.com/products/openwirestudio

The OpenWire Studio is available both as Installer:

http://www.mitov.com/OpenWireStudio_Installer_8.0.0.145.zip


and portable application directory zip:

http://www.mitov.com/OpenWireStudio_8.0.0.145.zip

This version is compatible with the latest version of the LabPacks installs - https://mitov.com

And projects created with OpenWire Studio can be loaded, and the data generated by them can be used in Delphi applications:

OpenWire Studio is a graphical programming IDE that allows creating and running complex designs within minutes and without writing any code utilizing the full speed of our high performance libraries.
It includes all of the Mitov Software libraries.
OpenWire Studio is designed to be extremely easy to use even by the most inexperienced users, while at the same time including very powerful and advanced features for the power users.
It introduces several revolutionary features, such as:

• Auto-suggesting suitable components when a component is selected
• Components and properties wildcard filtering
• Visual live binding for properties, methods, and events
• Preview and grouping for undo/redo actions
• Preview for the toolbox components
• In-place property editors
• Hosted component editors/visualizers
• Visual debugging
• Live editing
• and many more!

This version also includes a number of new components and features, including:

• Serial Communication Component
• Socket components
• MQTT components
• Modbus Master and Slave, Serial RTU and Ascii components
• Simple OPC implementation
• PID and Relay controller
• Structure and Packet components that allow communication with Visuino

And many more...

#Delphi #OpenWire

Released RAD Studio 12.3 Athens Delphi and C++ Builder version of all the Mitov Software libraries including 64 Bit IDE Support

   I have just released the first version of all of the Mitov Software libraries for RAD Studio, Delphi and C++ Builder 12.3 Athens including the new 64 Bit IDE Support!

The libraries are available for download here:

https://mitov.com/downloads

Here is also a list of some of the major improvements and new features of the libraries:

• Added RAD Studio 12.3 Athens support
• Added support for the new 64 bit RAD Studio IDE
• Improved IGDIPlus image codecs support
• Added IGPMatrixStore.Restore method
• Added IGPGraphics.ForHDC
• Added IGPGraphics ForSavedRenderingOrigin, ForSavedCompositingMode, ForSavedCompositingQuality, ForSavedTextRenderingHint, ForSavedContrast, ForSavedInterpolationMode, ForSavedSmoothingMode, ForSavedPixelOffsetMode, ForSavedTransform, and ForSavedClip
• Added DivideBy, Bottom, and Right to TIGPRect and TIGPRectF
• Added TIGPFMXBitmap class
• Added TIGPFMXBitmapHelper, TIGPFMXGraphics, and TIGPFMXCanvasHelper class helpers
• Added ForGraphics to TIGPVclBitmapHelper, and TIGPVclCanvasHelper
• TJsonParser renamed to JsonParser
• Initial migration to using Make instead of Create class methods for creating interfaced objects
• Improved performance
• Added component name highlighting in the property editor
• Improved Sockets error handling
• Added option to pass multiple patterns to ForFiles
• Added support for hint images
• Improved 64 bit support
• Added support for paste multiple items
• Added ForNames and ReadAnyString to IReader
• Added IsConnectedByIDs with Set parameter
• Improved C++ Builder Win64x compatibility
• ClockPin renamed to ClockInputPin in some of the components
• Added IsConnected to the Socket and ComPort components
• Improved HEX editor
• Added Playing, CanPlay, and CanStart properties to TVLVideoPlayer
• Added OnPaint support for the VideoDisplays

Please enjoy!

With best regards,

   Boian

Teaser: Visuino Live Q&A - Feb 22, 2025 11AM Pacific Time

 To celebrate the 10th Visuino Anniversary I will have a live Q&A this Saturday :-)

Here is a short teaser:

Please join, me to ask questions, suggest new features, and dive into discussions on everything microcontroller-related. Discover what it’s like to be a Visuino developer as I share my personal journey—from how it all started to the insights that have shaped my projects. 

I hope you will all enjoy it! :-)

Cheers,

  Boian

Just released the 10th anniversary edition of Visuino and Visuino Pro - Graphical Development for Arduino - 8_0_0_138 with Texas Instruments MSP432, RP2350, ATtiny controllers, RFID support and much more...

10 years ago to the day, I created the first Visuino prototype version. In the following few days, all the initial features were added, and I showed it for the first time during the 2015 Delphi week.

To celebrate the occasion, I have made a new release today :-)

https://www.visuino.com/downloads

It has been a long journey since then, the initial version was able to program only Arduino boards, and required the Arduino IDE to be able to compile the generated code.

Today, Visuino supports practically all controllers, and even Raspberry Pi, and is able to compile and upload directly from the IDE.

The new release is a huge update, including support for Texas Instruments MSP432, RP2350, many ATtiny series controllers, RFID, and much more.

This version also comes with significant speed improvements, especially when adding/deleting/ connecting and disconnecting components.

There is a lot more, but I will leave it for you to discover all the goodies :-)

Please Enjoy!

  Boian

 

Startup Weekend Conejo Valley 2024 at Hub101

Last weekend, I attended Startup Weekend Conejo Valley 2024 as a mentor.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-weekend-conejo-valley-2024-tickets-1013981996447

This was a great event organized by the nice folks at Hub101 :-)

Part of California Lutheran University’s Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Hub101 is the premier startup community hub for the Conejo Valley and Ventura County.

Hub101 also offers coworking space, and organizes some great events!

Here are some pictures I took from the event:

Friday the event kickoff - the path to the event:

The swagger:

In preparation for the event:

The gathering crowd:

Including the smallest attendee :-) :

The opening:

There were many Startup proposals. We all voted on them. In the end, 5 proposals were selected for the event, and teams were formed:

Saturday the teams were busy working on the projects. Here is some of the food that was prepared for them:

Sunday evening the time was up, and the teams had to present what they had done, and the judges were getting ready to vet the Startups:

Team 1 - AI-powered filter for privacy settings and policy agreements:

Team 2 - AI-powered personal companion, helping with mental challenges:

Team 3 - Platform for easy building and management of ADUs:

Team 4 - AI Alter Ego - create an AI copy of yourself that will take a different career path:

Team 5 - Platform directly connecting fishermen with consumers.

Awards were given to all teams for different achievements:

And finally, we all had a nice final dinner :-) :

All in all, it was another great event organized by Hub101. I am looking forward to their next event :-).