In order for design & engineering students to scale prototyping from 1-thing-1-person to many-things-many-persons, I wanted to develop a VS Code extension that scaffolds system behavior scripting for cloud-based deployment of designs. It builds on top of the Data Foundry platform, and offers a GUI-based way to ‘click together’ small pieces of logic and connect devices and users to these pieces of logic. It then generates boilerplate javascript and runs that on the Data Foundry platform. Together with Bureau Moeilijke Dingen, the VS Code extension was developed through cocreation sessions with students and is now deployed on the VS Code Marketplace, and will soon be used in the TU/e ID department as part of some courses.
Data Foundry Boost VS Code Extension
