BLAST - Block Applications For Things

Try out BLAST at https://wintechis.github.io/blast/

This is a monorepo with five packages:

• @blast/core is a library enabling usage of Web of Things (WoT) Thing Descriptions (TDs) for Bluetooth devices in Node.js.
• @blast/node bundle for Node.js, using node-ble-host and node-hid.
• @blast/browser BLAST browser bundle utilizing Web Bluetooth and WebHID.
• @blast/browser-demo a programming and execution environment for applications interacting with WoT devices from within the web-browser
• @blast/tds Collection of WoT Thing Descriptions tested with BLAST

For more detailed descriptions navigate to one of the packages (@blast/core or @blast/web)

Quick start

In order to use the BLAST web demo open a Terminal and enter the following commands:

1. Clone this repository with git clone https://github.com/wintechis/blast
2. Install dependencies: bun install
3. Build BLAST: bun run build
4. Start BLAST web: bun run start
5. Open your Browser and navigate to https://localhost:3000

Also execute sudo setcap cap_net_admin=ep $(eval readlink -f `which node`) to allow Node.js to access Bluetooth devices.

Publications

• Wehr, T., Freund, M., & Harth, A. (2024). Taking Control of Your Health Data: A Solid-Based Mobile App for Wearable Data Collection and RDF Visualization. In European Semantic Web Conference (pp. 336-339). (DBLP)
• Freund, M., Fries, J., Wehr, T., & Harth, A. (2023). Generating Visual Programming Blocks based on Semantics in W3C Thing Descriptions. In SWoCoT@ESWC (pp. 1-15). (DBLP)
• Freund, M., Wehr, T., & Harth, A. (2022). BLAST: Block Applications for Things. In European Semantic Web Conference (pp. 68-72). (DBLP)