Wireless Remote Control of Low-Cost Smart Devices for No-Coders

This paper describes the development of a block programming tool, named Facilino, to remotely control multiple agents consisting of low-cost smart devices based on ESP32 and Arduino, such an intelligent house and a robot, using Bluetooth and WiFi (HTTP) in the context of educational applications. Facilino is based on Blockly, a library that has been adapted to create Arduino code from custom blocks. The new tool is combined with App Inventor to develop Apps with no-coders. The paper describes the preliminary results using this tool within research and development and academic activities. This paper has been published at ICINCO 2023. 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics.