These days, a lot of embedded projects feature some sort of screen, and a screen often creates a desire for a nice user interface. [Geoffrey Wells] has created a tool for developing web interfaces for the ESP32, named ESP-GenUI.
The aim was to make UI development as easy as possible for this platform. ESP-GenUI allows the creation of a website by dragging various nodes on to a canvas and linking them up to create the desired web interface. There are nodes for GPIO control, camera feeds, gauges, and all sorts of other common elements for quickly putting together dashboards and control panels. All this is done from within the browser, and the code generated by the tool can even be flashed without having to open any external tools. Alternatively, it can spit out Arduino code that you can open and flash from within the IDE. You can try the tool out yourself right here.
We’ve featured some other great resources for developing embedded user interfaces, like this highly-flexible display library for the ESP32. Feel free to espouse on your own favorite tools and techniques in the comments.
Nope. Been there, done that 35 years ago using LabView. Did it again last year as a favor to a former client.
Graphical system design suck. Period. Full stop. Odin will punish you and deny entrance to Vahalla for using this stuff.
I deeply admire the depth of your explanation for your opinion.
Because the comments section on hack a day is open to general discussion with exhaustive back and forth allowing broad communications, while allowing participants to delve into the weeds of issues and hash out concepts solutions and alternatives.
That is a dependent clause, and therefore a sentence fragment.
On this bus, all bozos we are.
To anyone who forces the use of such—may all of your hashes collide.
I wish there was a quasi-standard UI format for designing windows and buttons. Qt is very close to ideal, at least for me and I feel very comfortable using it to develop applications for desktop. For android I mostly rely on android-studio which can be hit or miss (usually miss)
I don’t really like web technologies for making UIs because they feel different than native applications. I don’t like that. I’m sure its just some kind of undiagnosed obsessive disorder on my part. Still, can’t like them
Web technologies for interface design is a GUI rendered on top of a Document Object Model. Maybe that’s why. Don’t do that.
Is it an open source? But, where is link to sources? Can’t find it
It’s not open source, it’s commercial with limited free use apparently https://espgenui.com/
I wouldn’t mind if hackaday would limit itself to open source (or code available) projects.
Especially if it’s going to be vibecoded SaaS
I beg to differ, because if it’s a good idea (whether open source or not), it could inspire a group of people to create an open-source project based on it. So I still think Hackaday is a good source of info that doesn’t limit itself.
I don’t know why I appreciate the “an” in your comment so much, but I do.
i’ve hand-rolled primitive guis so many times that it feels normal to me to do so. the idea of being on an embedded platform and pulling in a library (or gui design studio sort of program) for this just seems insane to me. just unbelievable how much memory these chips have now, you don’t even really pay a perceptible cost for bloating your project up like that. if it is stupid and works then it isn’t stupid i guess.