Try the Online demo • Website • View the documentation • About Wheel
Wheel is an IDE which allows you to program EV3 and Powered Up robots in a text based language. The IDE provides several tools to test your robots and debug your programs.
A simulator allows you to view the state of your EV3 or Powered Up devices. It can display sensor information, motor speeds, motor position.
- Highlighted source code editor
- Code completion and code hints
- Breakpoints, a debugger, variable inspector
- EV3 Image and sound editor
- Works with standard EV3 firmware!
- EV3 File browser
- A simple syntax
- Text based language
- Procedural programming
- Number, struct, string and pointer types
- Include files
- Direct motor control
- EV3 Display
- View motor status
- View sensor status
- Simulate sensor input
- Read button input
- Connect to an EV3 or to Powered Up
- Supports daisy chaining or multiple Powered Up devices
The best way to run the latest version of Wheel is to use the electron version. To run this version you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:
# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/ArnoVanDerVegt/wheel.git
# Go into the repository
$ cd wheel
# Install dependencies
$ npm installThe electron version can be started with the command:
$ npm startThe NodeJS version only supports PoweredUp and can be started with the following command:
$ node server.js