Developing interactive product is multidisciplinary task. It's related to industrial design, programming, user experience and sometimes graphic design skills. Arduino is easy hardware prototyping platform but things get complicated when software is involved in project - even if there are many great tools and frameworks for app prototyping. For designers it's a huge obstacle that blocks many concepts from making it to the real world. Involt is a framework to help designers in their projects on early stages without advanced programming.

The key to Involt is to "make it simple" to prototype, iterate and quickly show results to users. Involt can be a huge boost in your design process, especially during RITE method (Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation).

The main feature of this framework is easy and quick workflow. The syntax was inspired by popular responsive design frameworks. You can create your app with basic knowledge about HTML, CSS and Arduino. You can also create more advanced interactions with use of JavaScript and JQuery.

Main features:

• Fast results with easy to learn CSS syntax.
• Ready to use UI kit.
• Same app can work on both desktop and mobile (with Bluetooth 2.0);
• JS/JQuery based.
• Minimum Arduino code required.

Involt translates CSS classes into functions. You need to specify UI element, target pin and variables like desired values or their range. Here is simple button example (Send to pin 5 value 255):

<div class = “ard button P5 value-255”> Click me </div> 

It's also possible to do the same with JQuery:

$(this).pinDefine("P5").sendValue(255); 

Getting started: http://involt.github.io/getting-started.html

Reference: http://involt.github.io/reference.html

1. Install Google Chrome.
2. Download and unpack Involt.
3. In Chrome go to tools > extensions.
4. Toggle Developer mode
5. Click “Load unpacked extension...” and choose www folder.

Now you can open your project with launch button or Chrome App Launcher.

Project works on Win, OSX and Chrome OS (Serial, Bluetooth 2.0). For mobile currently Android and Bluetooth 2.0 is supported.

For mobile support and installation check http://involt.github.io/getting-started/mobile.html

Other examples can be found on http://involt.github.io/examples.html

For developement check wiki and issues on github.