CircuitPython Online IDE
Hechuan Wang
Hechuan Wang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stony Brook University (SBU) in 2021. During his Ph.D. study, he actively participated in the university outreach program, designing two remote STEM academies that taught Electrical Engineering to 6-8th grades online. After graduation, he became an Assistant Professor of Practice at SBU, teaching the Outreach Program. His educational interest is exposing young students to engineering and making engineering education more accessible through online activities. He is now a Software Engineer since May 2022.
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What inspired you to make this project?
When I was teaching STEM outreach classes, I found one of the biggest obstacles for students to get into microcontrollers was setting up the coding environment. This problem was even more prominent when the classes were given online. So I created an online IDE that requires nothing but a Chrome browser which greatly simplified the setup process and solved the problem. Even though I am no longer a teacher, I continue to improve the IDE. It is now a helpful tool not only for educators but for makers as well.