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!

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

 

Visuino is updated to support the new ESP32 3.0 platform!

Few days ago Espressif released new version of the ESP32 Arduino platform 3.0.

Unfortunately the 3.0 version has a large number of breaking changes, and was not compatible with the Visuino generated code :-( .
This sent me scrambling to update Visuino to the new version, and today finally I was able to make a release fixing this :-).

Here is a video showing how to upgrade the ESP32 platform to 3.0.X:

Please note that while Visuino mostly uses its own libraries, there are couple of exceptions. As example it uses the IRremote library to work with Infrared Remote transmitters.

Sadly ESP32 3.0 does not support the Hall Sensor any more, so I was forced to also remove the support for it :-( . Trust me, I tried all I could to find any way to support it, but since there was no source for the support on low level, that I was able to find, I had to give up :-( .

ESP32 3.0 also changes the default partitions for the boards. You may need to change the partition if you are building a big project!

Here is a video showing how to change the ESP32 Partition:

Currently the IRremote library is not yet ESP32 3.0.X compatible. Hopefully it will be updated in the coming days, but at present there are problems when using Infrared Remote devices with ESP32 :-( .

You can download the latest Visuino here:

https://www.visuino.com/downloads/

Please Enjoy! :-)

Visuino at Maker Faire LA 2024

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

Daniel Sidman also came and joined me at the booth helping me as volunteer, and I am very grateful for his help!

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

Here are some pictures of the Visuino booth:

 

And some of the great neighbors :-)

Travis Hughes and Scarab: the Environmental Data Collection Robot:

Mandel Lum and his super cool "Flip a Table" project! :-)

And some pictures of the crowd! :-)

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

It was the first time I was presenting at a Maker Faire or any event of such huge size, and I made a lot of mistakes in preparing for it, but at the end it went better than I anticipated!

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

Learn how to Control Arduino Manipulator Robot with Delphi and Visuino over Serial, WiFi or Bluetooth - Tomorrow at Coding Boot Camp 2022

 Join me during my Coding Boot Camp session tomorrow - August 24, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT to learn how to program Arduino Manipulator Robot with Visuino, and how to create Delphi applications to control it over Serial Port, WiFi or Bluetooth.

Control Arduino Manipulator with Delphi and Visuino over WiFi or Bluetooth

You will learn:

• How to install and work with Arduino Shields and modules
• How to program the Robot with Visuino
• How to receive and record data from the Robot with Delphi
• How to create Animation TimeLine and use it to control the Robot
• How control the Robot from Windows and Android Delphi Applications
• How to communicate with the Robot over Serial, WiFi and Bluetooth

And much more! :-)

Looking forward to have you all join the fun next week! :-)

Cheers,

  Boian

Learn how to Control Arduino Manipulator Robot with Delphi and Visuino over WiFi or Bluetooth - next week at DelphiCon 2021

Join me during my DelphiCon 2021 session next week - November 17, 2021, 1:00 pm PST to learn how to program Arduino Manipulator Robot with Visuino, and how to create Delphi applications to control it over Serial Port, WiFi or Bluetooth.

Control Arduino Manipulator with Delphi and Visuino over WiFi or Bluetooth

You will learn:

• How to install and work with Arduino Shields and modules
• How to program the Robot with Visuino
• How to receive and record data from the Robot with Delphi
• How to create Animation TimeLine and use it to control the Robot
• How control the Robot from Windows and Android Delphi Applications
• How to communicate with the Robot over Serial, WiFi and Bluetooth

And much more! :-)

Looking forward to have you all join the fun next week! :-)

Cheers,

  Boian

Assemble SNARM500/SNAM1900 4DOF Arduino Robot Manipulator Arm Step 7: Finish and Program with Visuino

     I have finished the 7th and final assembly video on the Arduino Robot Manipulator Arm .

The Manipulator is based on the original MeArm manipulator: http://learn.mearm.com/

I already posted :

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble the Base
Step 2: Assembly Video - Install the side servos
Step 3: Assembly Video - Assemble the Servos Block
Step 4: Assembly Video - Prepare and Install the Rotating Base
Step 5: Assembly Video - Assemble the Joints
Step 6: Assembly Video - Assemble the Claw

And here is the 7th Assembly Video - Finish and Program with Visuino

Here is the Visuino project from the video:
https://www.visuino.com/installs/RobotArmPotentiometerControl.zip

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days.

After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Manipulator.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Robot

A Night With The Visuino Robots at CodeCraft

Last Wednesday I was presenting Visuino Robots Programming at CodeCraft, organized by Mircea Nedelcu, and hosted at the CJ Affiliate office in Westlake Village, CA

This is an amature video recorded at the event:

M5Stack BugC ESP32 Robot controlled by JuyC over WiFi:

And here are some short videos of some of the robots.

Elegoo Walking Arduino Penguin Bot:

RemoteXY WiFi controlled YahBoom Robot with ESP32 BPI:Bit controller:

Source code for the robots: http://www.mitov.com/CodeCraftRobotProjects.zip I used this latest development version of Visuino: https://www.visuino.com/installs/Visuino_7_8_3_26_Update5.zip Link to the CdeCraft Meetup event: https://www.meetup.com/codecraftgroup/events/chfblrybcdbqb/ Visuino Web Site - https://www.visuino.com RemoteXY Web Site - http://remotexy.com/ Robots by: ELEGOO - www.elegoo.com KUMAN - www.kumantech.com YAHBOOM - yahboom.net M5Stack - m5stack.com BPI:Bit controller by: Banana Pi - www.banana-pi.org

I am sorry for the bad quality, but we just used some phones to record as much as we could.
I hope you will enjoy it even in this sorry form. I will try to record and post more events in the future.

Cheers,
Boian

RemoteXY controlled Arduino Elegoo Smart Car Robot with Visuino - Quick and Easy!

Visuino makes it extremely easy to program Arduino and other micro controllers to be controlled from the RemoteXY mobile app over Bluetooth LE.
I have made easy Video Tutorial on how you can program Elegoo Arduino Smart Car Robot with Visuino in less than 2 minutes to control it from RemoteXY app.

Watch the Video Tutorial here:

Here is the Visuino diagram:

Here is the Visuino project:
http://www.mitov.com/RobotElegooV3RemoteXYSimple.visuino

If you like this video, and want to help me make more videos, and add more Visuino features, you can support me on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/mitov

The Patreon support helps me make more videos, and allows me to continue to work the the Visuino development.

I hope you will enjoy the Video. Stay tuned for more fun videos :-)

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #RemoteXY

Just received 8 cool modules from my good friends at M5Stack for the Visuino development!

Today I received another great surprise!

My good friends at M5Stack sent me some more Grove System modules and M5StickC Hats:

• Dual Button Module
• PIR Motion Sensor
• I2C Joystick Unit
• I/O Hub 1 to 6 Expansion Unit
• M5StickC ENV Hat
• M5StickC Yun Hat

All these great modules were donated for the Visuino development :-)

Here are some pictures from the unboxing:

All the modules in the box


The sensors:


And the M5StickC Yun Hat:

As you can see from the pictures the modules are of very fine quality, and I can assure you that they look really great!

I have already added in Visuino the modules that I received from M5Stack few weeks ago.

I have already started work on the newly arrived modules, adding support for them in Visuino, and plan to post videos of the controllers, and some tutorials on how to program them with Visuino.

Cheer,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #ESP32 #M5Stack