Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino

Posted by birudeghi on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:15PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hello HN!

I'm excited to reveal Surfboard to you all! Surfboard is a widget that enables you to share your Arduino code as a URL link or HTML embed. People interacting with your widget can edit, compile and upload the code into their Arduino board--right in the browser.

Surfboard supports over 170 boards and over 4,200 libraries, so rest assured you can share quite a large variety of Arduino projects here :)

More on tech stack: - Backend is Node.js and Go with MongoDB database, with most of the codebase a derivative of the Duino App project (https://duino.app/)

- React frontend

This project is a few days old so feedback is highly appreciated!

P.S. If you live in the UK (esp. London), I'm also looking for a highly technical and passionate partner-in-crime. Send an email to [email protected] with 1) Something amazing you've built, 2) How you got into the hardware space, 3) Contact details and times when I can talk with you.

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Re:Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino by claxo on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:39PM (#30549980)

A list of libraries would be nice. Also, allow to do a quick squetch, non persistent, without registering.

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Re:Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino by birudeghi on Friday March 04, 2022 @03:37PM (#30560210)

Thanks for the feedback! Is the search bar for the libraries not sufficient? We assumed that whoever is writing the code will know what libraries to include so they can just type them in the search bar.

We see that people wanted to have a play with the product before fully creating one for themselves! We’ll consider doing a demo widget at the front page to serve that need, but out of curiosity, what do you find most difficult about creating the widget?

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Re:Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino by hgo on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:40PM (#30548016)

Definitely pushes me in the direction of taking the plunge into Arduino. Thanks for sharing!

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Re:Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino by birudeghi on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:27PM (#30548505)

Yes, go ahead and start building! Surfboard would be perfect to showcase your first project so do pay us a visit down the road!

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Re:Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino by lxe on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:01PM (#30548228)

Would be nice to have this explanation for what this is somewhere on the site.

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Re:Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino by birudeghi on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:16PM (#30548402)

Very good point, thank you! I was betting on people trying it out for themselves but apparently the description isn’t clear :/

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Re:Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino by archerx on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:04AM (#30551567)

We need some examples, when I arrived on the landing page thats the first thing I looked for and could only find a create button and promptly left.

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