Generic seam only — no board, OS or runtime specifics in the OSS tree:
an overlay may register an engine that decides, per board, whether a run
needs the Linux guest or can happen in the browser. The decision is data
(engine + reason + where) so the UI can explain a 90 s boot instead of
just taking it, and BoardInstance carries engineMode / enginePinned so
the user's choice is predictable and the terminal panel knows whether an
interactive shell exists. Nothing registers in OSS: the QEMU path is
untouched.
QEMU-Linux boards used three competing file surfaces (workspace group
with a meaningless sketch.ino/libraries.json, the VFS panel with its
Upload button, and the Pi workspace's own editor). Now they behave like
every other board:
- the editor file group defaults to script.py for ANY Pi-family kind
(kind-based check via isPiBoardKind, not the old raspberry-pi- string)
- the libraries.json manifest row is hidden for Pi boards
- EditorPage always renders Monaco; the RaspberryPiWorkspace swap is
gone
- the bottom serial panel renders the interactive xterm (PiTerminal,
now seeded with session history) for running Pi boards
- example vfsFiles load into the editor group (single source of truth);
the run path uploads the group into the guest home
- Run on a booted guest re-runs without the 45 s reboot (Ctrl-C +
re-upload + run); starting a Pi board pops the terminal open
- piSyncAndRunScript/piRerunScript exported from the store; auto-run
now applies to the whole family (guestHome/autoRun overridable)
- ProBoardDef.autoRun: after boot (+guestSetup) the VFS uploads itself
and the command runs, so a single Run click boots, uploads and starts
the user's script (same UX as compiled boards)
- ProBoardDef.guestHome: VFS home dir override ('/root' for guests that
log in as root); those boards drop the historic hello.sh sample
- upload sequence extracted to utils/piUpload (shared by the VFS panel
button and autoRun)
- serial monitor strips DEL/C0 control echoes (backspace showed tofu)
- boot_images manifest: bump arm64 rootfs (gpiozero/colorzero baked in,
hostname applied at boot, reworded MOTD)
- RaspberryPi3Bridge: onBooted shell-ready detector + sendAndWaitForPrompt
flow control (resets on disconnect)
- RaspberryPiWorkspace: distinct Booting overlay + piBooted-driven status,
inline SVG icons replacing emoji glyphs
- SerialMonitor: strip CSI/DSR escapes so the dumb console no longer shows
a literal [6n next to the prompt
- VirtualFileSystem: upload auto-starts the Pi and waits for the shell, then
flow-controls each command (no more dropped lines on large files)
- i18n: bootingTitle/bootingNote + reworded offlineNote2 across 9 locales
The Pico W emulation runs in THIS browser tab via requestAnimationFrame.
Opening the gateway with target=_blank / window.open backgrounds the
emulation tab; the browser then pauses its rAF, the simulated chip
freezes, and the gateway can no longer reach the server on it — the
request times out (502) and toggles do nothing.
Render the served page in a same-tab iframe panel (openDeviceGateway) for
the Pico W so the emulation stays in the foreground and keeps answering.
The ESP32 is unchanged (its server runs in QEMU on the backend, immune to
tab visibility), so it keeps opening in a new tab.
Also: the async-led page now shows the LED state (the board's onboard LED
isn't drawn on the canvas) so the toggle has visible feedback.
- SerialMonitor linkifies http://10.13.37.x (the Pico W subnet) the same
way it already does http://192.168.4.x for the ESP32, turning the
sketch's printed URL into an 'Open IoT Gateway' link.
- SimulatorCanvas shows the clickable WiFi badge for the Pico W too
(normalizing its 'started' status, which carries the fixed IP, to
got_ip so it reuses the ESP32 badge styling + launcher).
- async-led and servo-web examples print a clickable http://<ip>/ line
so the gateway link appears (relay-web-server already did).
Gated e2e (CYW43_GATEWAY_E2E=1) drives the real emulator + a running
backend and asserts the served page comes back through /api/gateway.
Phase 2 of the run-system/UX work.
- BoardInstance gains an optional user ; boardDisplayName(board) resolver
(name || kind label) routes every INSTANCE-label surface: file-explorer
section header, compile console (EditorToolbar), canvas selector/tooltip/
context-menu, Serial Monitor tabs, Oscilloscope board picker, Board Options
subtitle. Board/component pickers keep the KIND label (they pick new boards).
- Inline rename on board AND chip section headers (double-click the name, or a
hover pencil button). Board -> updateBoard(id,{name}); chip -> chipName in
properties. Enter commits, Escape cancels (cancel-flag ref guards the
unmount-fires-onBlur footgun), empty clears to the kind / 'Custom Chip'.
- FileTabs shows an owner badge naming the board/chip whose files are shown
(resolved as a selector so it doesn't re-render on every sim pin toggle).
- CustomChipDialog no longer clobbers a user-given chipName: chip.json's name
only seeds the blank defaults (My Chip / Custom Chip); loading an example
relabels explicitly.
- Persistence: board name round-trips via projectPayload (+ dirty hash),
vlxFile, ProjectByIdPage load + loadProjectState; chipName rides components_json.
- Drive-by: fixed a pre-existing rules-of-hooks violation in BoardOptionsModal
(early return before a useCallback).
Reviewed by a 3-agent adversarial pass (completeness / persistence / correctness);
all major findings folded in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The BoardKind type and the QEMU backend already supported
raspberry-pi-4 (Cortex-A72) and raspberry-pi-5 (Cortex-A76) by reusing
the Pi 3 arm64 image set, but the frontend had no way to actually
select either: the board picker, the canvas renderer, the serial
monitor, the oscilloscope channel list, and the editor toolbar all
hard-coded "raspberry-pi-3" as the only Pi entry. ComponentRegistry
even registered Pi 4 / Pi 5 metadata pointing at the velxio-raspberry-pi-3
custom-element tag — a placeholder that meant both boards rendered as
a Pi 3 in the picker thumbnail and on the canvas.
Add dedicated boards top-to-bottom:
* `RaspberryPi4Element.ts` / `RaspberryPi5Element.ts` — Velxio-style
schematic SVG (authored from scratch, not traced). Pi 4 is the
green PCB with BCM2711 SoC, 4× USB-A, USB-C power, dual µHDMI;
Pi 5 is the darker green PCB with BCM2712 + RP1 southbridge,
2.5 GbE, USB-C 5V/5A, PCIe FFC connector, dedicated power
button. Both carry a small "velxio" mark in the corner.
* `pi40PinHeader.ts` — shared `buildPi40PinHeader()` helper that
returns the 40-pin BCM layout. Every Pi from the 1B+ onwards
uses the same physical pin positions and same BCM GPIO
assignment, so Pi 3 / Pi 4 / Pi 5 elements all consume this
helper and example wires drawn against one model transfer to
the others without re-routing.
* React wrappers `RaspberryPi4.tsx` / `RaspberryPi5.tsx` render the
custom elements at absolute positions (mirrors how
RaspberryPi3.tsx handles the Pi 3 illustration).
* Wire-up across the editor surface:
- BoardOnCanvas: BOARD_SIZE entry + switch case.
- BoardPickerModal: description, icon, kinds list.
- ComponentPickerModal: thumbnails now instantiate the dedicated
custom element (was velxio-raspberry-pi-3 fallback).
- SerialMonitor / EditorToolbar: pill labels, icons, colours.
- Oscilloscope: GPIO channel list (28 BCM pins).
- SimulatorCanvas: remote-boards filter for run/stop sync.
- SPICE boardPinGroups: same 5V / 3V3 / GND as Pi 3.
- boardPinToNumber: accepts physical pin numbers ("1"-"40"),
BCM names ("GPIO14") and power labels for any Pi 3/4/5 id.
- ComponentRegistry: dedicated tagNames + per-board thumbnails
(green for Pi 4, darker green for Pi 5).
* EditorToolbar's Pi 3 special cases (Linux/Python compile path,
Run/Stop routing) now use `isPiBoardKind()` so Pi 4 and Pi 5
inherit the same behaviour automatically, and any future Pi
family member (Zero / 1 / 2) lands in the right code paths the
moment its backend boots.
QEMU backend was already wired (qemu_manager.py:71/82 + manifest entry
'raspberry-pi-3-virt' shared across arm64 Pis), so this commit makes
both boards selectable end-to-end without any backend follow-up.
InstallLibrariesModal — auto-install prompt that fires when an
example needs libraries:
- Title, subtitle (with the "Installing X of Y" progress
interpolation, the all-done success state, and the singular /
plural prompt explaining the requirement count).
- Per-row status badges (pending / installing… / installed /
error) plus the Wokwi-hosted-library tooltip.
- Footer buttons: Close / Skip / "Install All ({{count}})" with
loading variant.
SerialMonitor — multi-board tabbed serial console:
- Empty-state when no board is on the canvas.
- Right-side tab controls: Autoscroll checkbox, Clear button +
tooltip.
- The "(Open IoT Gateway)" inline link rendered next to detected
AP IP addresses.
- Output-area placeholders for the running-but-no-data and
before-start states.
- Send button + input placeholder (different copy for MicroPython
REPL vs raw Serial input).
- The line-ending dropdown options (None / Newline / Carriage
return / Both).
Hand-translated for all 9 locales. Hotkeys (Ctrl+C) and dropdown
values stay untranslated (constants the firmware reads).
Pending in Phase 3:
- Oscilloscope panel, custom-chip dialog, sensor control panel.
- ComponentPropertyDialog (per-component property forms).
- Admin / Profile / Project pages.
- Long-form docs prose (DocsPage 2715 lines, AboutPage long
paragraphs).
- 15 SEO landing pages (intentionally English for keyword targeting).
Beta testers saw raw `[0;32m` and `[0m` text mixed into the serial
monitor for several ESP32 examples. Those are ANSI SGR escapes the
ESP-IDF logger emits to color INFO/WARN lines on a real terminal. Our
<pre> renders them literally because there was no ANSI handling in
the path.
Strip the SGR sequences (`\x1b\[[0-9;]*m`) before the IP-linkifier so
the user only sees plain text. Combined with the sdkconfig change that
drops the default log level to WARN, the ESP32 output is now as clean
as the AVR output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Modified the index file to reflect the new naming convention for Velxio components.
- Changed JSX declarations to use 'velxio-' prefix for various components.
- Updated component overrides to replace 'wokwi-' with 'velxio-' for logic gates and other components.
- Adjusted SVG generation script to use 'velxio-' prefix for BMP280 and Raspberry Pi components.
- Marked submodules as dirty in QEMU and RP2040 libraries.
- Added .prettierignore and .prettierrc.json for consistent code formatting.
- Introduced InstrumentComponent with support for Voltmeter and Ammeter, including pin information handling.
- Implement `serial-batching.test.ts` to verify the behavior of `createSerialBatcher`, ensuring it coalesces multiple appends into a single flush, preserves byte order, and groups by board.
- Create `spice-rectifier-integration.test.ts` to test the end-to-end functionality of the Half-Wave Rectifier example, covering the entire simulation pipeline from input building to circuit solving.
- Add `spice-rectifier-live-repro.test.ts` to reproduce a live-app failure scenario, tracing through each layer of the simulation to identify potential failure points.
- Introduce `spice-signal-generator-tran.test.ts` to validate the behavior of the signal generator and ensure correct analysis type switching based on circuit components.
- Establish `serialBatcher.ts` to implement a batching mechanism for USART output, reducing the frequency of store updates and preventing React's maximum update depth error.
Extends MicroPython support (Phase 2) to ESP32 Xtensa boards running on
QEMU. Firmware is downloaded from micropython.org, cached in IndexedDB,
and loaded into QEMU. User code is injected via the raw-paste REPL
protocol after the MicroPython REPL boots.
- Create Esp32MicroPythonLoader.ts for firmware download/cache
- Add raw-paste REPL injection (Ctrl+A → Ctrl+E → code → Ctrl+D) to Esp32Bridge
- Extend loadMicroPythonProgram in store for ESP32 path
- Add ESP32 default MicroPython content (GPIO 2 blink)
- Simplify SerialMonitor Ctrl+C/D to work for all MicroPython boards
- Bundle fallback firmware for ESP32 and ESP32-S3
- Add all ESP32 board variants to SerialMonitor tab maps
Closes#3 (Phase 2)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements MicroPython emulation for Raspberry Pi Pico boards running
entirely in the browser using rp2040js. Users can toggle between
Arduino C++ and MicroPython modes via a language selector dropdown.
Key changes:
- Add LanguageMode type and BOARD_SUPPORTS_MICROPYTHON to board types
- Create MicroPythonLoader.ts: UF2 firmware parser, LittleFS filesystem
builder (via littlefs-wasm), IndexedDB firmware caching
- Extend RP2040Simulator with loadMicroPython() method using USBCDC for
serial REPL instead of UART
- Add setBoardLanguageMode and loadMicroPythonProgram store actions
- Update EditorToolbar with language toggle and MicroPython compile flow
- Enhance SerialMonitor with REPL label, Ctrl+C/D support
- Bundle MicroPython v1.20.0 UF2 firmware as fallback in public/firmware/
- Update useEditorStore to create main.py default for MicroPython mode
Closes#3
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add VirtualFileSystem component for managing files and directories.
- Integrate useVfsStore for state management of the virtual file system.
- Implement context menu for file operations: New File, New Folder, Rename, Delete.
- Add upload functionality to send files to Raspberry Pi.
- Create default file structure for new Raspberry Pi boards.
- Enhance editor with board-aware features and compile/run orchestration.
- Introduce CompileAllProgress component for tracking compilation status across boards.
- Redesign SerialMonitor to support multiple boards with tabbed interface.
- Establish Raspberry Pi specific workspace with terminal and file system integration.
- Implemented SerialMonitor component to display serial output and allow user input.
- Enhanced AVRSimulator to handle USART communication and transmit serial data.
- Updated useSimulatorStore to manage serial output state and toggle visibility of the Serial Monitor.
- Added example Arduino sketches for serial communication, including Serial Echo and Serial LED Control.
- Introduced I2CBusManager to manage virtual I2C devices and integrated with AVRSimulator.
David Montero Crespo