http://www.gostai.com/studio.html
This is fantastic. It’s hard to explain. It’s basically a prototyping framework. Check it out.
- You can graphically create a state diagram and it’ll convert the logic to code automatically. Each state/node has code in it to execute and you can obviously set the conditions for state change and such. All this is dynamic (realtime & pause/resumable) and you can set nodes within nodes. This executes in exactly the same way it would had you coded all this manually, as I’ve been having to do.
- You can sequence motion graphically as well as record motion for repeat. Again, code is automatic. So if you want the camera to pan left<—>right at various speeds, it would be insanely simple.
- You can create a control panel with specified widgets to control things. This is also dynamic. You can use a slider gui to manually control a servo or something.
- It also has its own parallel-execution language but it can interface with other programs as in it can be used in conjunction with some other coding structure.
It’s really hard to explain in words. I met with a guy from URBI that demoed (sp?) it for us using an Aibo and it really made everything from control/actuation to debugging to editing incredibly simple, visible, and IMMEDIATE.
Other logic/control gui programs may already be out there that I totally don’t know about, but this one looked excellent. If no one else, I really recommend Mark and Jet check it out!
