The September/October issue of “Robot” contains a well researched review about ViewPort- tagline: “A deluxe Propeller debugger in a sophisticated development environment”.  Here some extracts:

The new ViewPort Development Studio from Parallax delivers an industrial-strength debugger combined with a Spin editor and a large set of powerful data-analysis views.  As a full-time software engineer working with Microsoft Visual Studio, I have been spoiled by sophisticated commercial development tools.  For me, ViewPort delivers the same power to my hobby as I have when I’m working at the office.  That isn’t saying that using ViewPort is like being at work; ViewPort is a lot more fun.

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Most important, you can set breakpoints and single step your Spin program from this view.  This window is software engineer’s nirvana.

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Let me assure you that, with very little effort, you’ll be able to make immediate use of ViewPort’s basic debugging feature.  To help you learn, ViewPort includes a great manual and many source-code samples and tutorials to help you master each capability.

Thank you Steve!  Past issues of Robot are available online at: http://botmag.com

I gave a “Tech Talk” at Google about the projects I’m working on: ViewPort, the premier debugging tool for the Propeller, DanceBot, an interactive vision guided balancing robot, and PropScope, a multi-function usb oscilloscope/logic analyzer/function generator to be sold at retail for $199. See here for the video and here for my slides.

Talking about ViewPort/PropScope/DanceBot at Google

I’ve been busy giving talks and demos of my projects at Silicon Valley’s Homebrew Robotics Club, Willow Garage, Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Here are some Slides and Video

Pick up the March ’09 issue of Circuit Cellar or read the feature article here: Vision-Guided Robotics
A Next-Generation Balancing Robot DanceBot is still a prototype, but you can sign the waiting list here.

We’re proud to work with Parallax to bring ViewPort to a wider audience of electronic enthusiasts, educators, and professionals. Parallax is known for top quality electronic and robotic products- including the Boe-Bot, Basic Stamp, and more recently the multicore Propeller microcontroller.

Here’s some feedback from our users on ViewPort v4.1:

Several magazines picked up the Press Release:
Elektor, Servo, and Nuts and Volts.

This week I released ViewPort version 4.  It’s taken 7 months of hard work since the last release, but I’m very happy with the result.  I want to thank all the people that helped in ViewPort’s development: Jen for the graphics, Andy for reviewing the manual and catching lots of bugs, my dad for his valuable insights and patience in testing dozens of builds, Harley and Mike for more testing and inspiration, and of course my mom and family for supporting me.  Take a look here!