Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform

Johnny-Five is the JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform. Originally created by Rick Waldron in 2012, Johnny-Five is maintained by a community of passionate software developers and hardware engineers. Over 75 developers have made contributions towards building a robust, extensible and composable ecosystem.

The Johnny-Five Inventor's Kit:

The only kit designed for getting started with Johnny-Five!

The Johnny-Five Inventor's Kit, from SparkFun, is now available! It's designed for anyone who wants to get started with JavaScript-powered robotics. The J5IK includes a Tessel 2, and everything else you need to do 14 experiments! No programming or soldering experience is required.

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Hello World!

Microcontrollers and SoC platforms like to say "Hello World" with a simple blinking LED; the following demonstrates how to do this with the Johnny-Five framework.

Install Node.js (Prefer LTS!).
Setup your board.
Get Johnny-Five: npm install johnny-five *
Run your program! node blink.js

var five = require("johnny-five");
var board = new five.Board();

board.on("ready", function() {
  var led = new five.Led(13);
  led.blink(500);
});

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* There are likely to be other steps involved in preparing your target platform, the best place to start is by looking at Platform Support.

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Platform Support

Johnny-Five has been tested with a variety of Arduino-compatible Boards. For non-Arduino based projects, platform-specific IO Plugins are available. IO Plugins allow Johnny-Five code to communicate with any hardware in whatever language that platform speaks!

JavaScript on Things: Hardware for Web Developers

JavaScript can be used to control hordes of small robots, creative maker projects, and IoT devices. With the Node.js ecosystem at hand, hardware prototyping gets fun, intuitive and fast.

JavaScript on Things is the first step into the exciting world of programming for small electronics. This fully-illustrated, hands-on book teaches readers how to get going with platforms like Arduino, Tessel 2, and Raspberry Pi.

Use the Manning discount code gardnerb for 37% off!

Project author: Lyza Danger Gardner

Make: JavaScript Robotics

JavaScript Robotics is on the rise. Rick Waldron, the creator of the Johnny-Five platform and lead author of Make: JavaScript Robotics, is at the forefront of this movement. This book brings together fifteen innovative programmers, each creating a unique Johnny-Five robot step-by-step, and offering tips and tricks along the way. Experience with JavaScript is a prerequisite.

Project authors: David Resseguie, Raquel Velez, Anna Gerber, Lyza Danger Gardner, Kassandra Perch, Susan Hinton, Andrew Fisher, Sara Gorecki, Julian David Duque, Jonathan Beri, Donovan Buck, Emily Rose, Bryan Hughes, Pawel Szymczykowski

Learning JavaScript Robotics

Design, build, and program your own remarkable robots with JavaScript and open source hardware!
There has been a rapid rise in the use of JavaScript in recent times in a variety of applications, and JavaScript robotics has seen a rise in popularity too. Johnny-Five is a framework that gives NodeBots a consistent API and platform across several hardware systems.
This book walks you through basic robotics projects including the physical hardware builds and the JavaScript code for them. You'll delve into the concepts of Johnny-Five and JS robotics.

Project author: Kassandra Perch