circuito.io Components Editor - Overview
In this video we will give an overview of how circuito.io parts are structured and defined in our system.
Each component in circuito.io is called a block, Each block can contain different circuits.
Let's take, for example, a red LED and drag it onto the canvas.
If we swap the Arduino Uno to a different controller, such as the Arduino Pro Mini 3.3 volt, you will notice that the resistor changes from 220 ohms to 100 ohms.
Here you can see that the red LED block actually contains 2 different circuits. Each circuit describes a different wiring method to different microcontrollers.
Every circuit is made out of individual parts. The 5-volt circuit contains the Red LED and the 220-ohm resistor, and the 3.3 volt circuit contains a red LED and the 100-ohm resistor.
The circuit also describes how these individual parts are wired to each other and how they interface to the microcontroller.
Each circuit can also contain a coder. Coders contain the code snippet and code libraries for the circuit. Different circuits can use the same coder or a different one.
So, to summarize, in circuito.io there are Blocks which contain different circuits. Each circuit, contains individual parts, the wiring methods between them, and a coder which defines the code snippet and code libraries.
In the next videos, we will deep dive to each one of these sections to see how they actually work in order to create or edit components in circuito.io.