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I'd like to see this project revived and expanded:

https://github.com/omni360/assemblino.js

There used to be a site to try it out, but now you'll have to clone it and start it up locally yourself.

It's basically a javascript/node webgl robotics simulation kit; you can even interface your simulation to an Arduino to have the simulator control a real robot.

There's various "parts" models (wheels, servos, etc) included, which are just javascript object definitions; plus a variety of basic components that can be "glued" into larger assemblies.

I'd like to see it enhanced and expanded; from that perspective, I'd like to see:

1. Additional "real world" platforms supported (raspi, beagleboard, etc)

2. This could arguably be done via integration with something like http://johnny-five.io/

3. Add the ability to use models built via https://openjscad.org/ (?)

4. Perhaps integrate things with https://github.com/octoblu ?

Basically build it out into a really neat toolkit for robotics, iot, and ai/ml research and fun (to that later end, perhaps add on something like http://propelml.org/ and other libraries?)...




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