Curious to see Storyboard Suite in action on your hardware? Our pre-built and packaged demos make it easy for you to test drive different types of applications designed for specific hardware platforms, letting you experience the powerful controls and smooth animations that create beautiful UIs.
i.MX 6ULL demo for medical, white goods, and home automation
This image includes everything you need to get up and running on an i.MX 6ULL platform in minutes, offering the following demos:
Smart washing machine – drill down into operational settings and track progress through cycles
Medical – browse through typical patient diagnostics, electronic health records (EHR), and security verification
Home automation – play with temperature controls, check out local weather, and customize lighting throughout the floorplan
Also included are instructions for flashing the image to an SD card and running it on your own board.
To try Storyboard Suite for yourself, start your free trial now and see how easy it is to create beautiful embedded UIs from concept to production.
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” That’s good because I am currently drowning in photos and videos from Embedded World 2017. With over 30,000 attendees at the show, we had the opportunity to talk to people with a wide variety of skill sets and job titles. We brought a lot of hardware to Germany again this year which is always a great conversation starter. People were thrilled to see the breadth of platform support and to have the opportunity to interact with Storyboard UI demos on actual targets.
Check out these photos of demos from our booth (Hall 4/4-270) and demos that we spied in some partner booths.
Multi-Market Storyboard Demo on NXP i.MX 6UltraLite
MNXP i.MX 7UltraLowPower
Storyboard Distributed eCockpit running on NXP i.MX8
Movie Kiosk, IoT Home, and 3D Automotive Cluster on the NXP i.MX6QuadPlus
Movie Kiosk, Robotic Arm, and Home IoT Demo on the Toradex Colibri i.MX 6DualLite
Home Automation Demo on the ST32F746 running FreeRTOS
Storyboard Multi-market Demo on the ST32F429 running FreeRTOS
Storyboard Multi-market Demo on the Atmel SAMA5D2
Storyboard Multi-market Demo on the Atmel SAMA5D4
Storyboard Multi-market Demo on the Renesas RZ/A1
Storyboard Robotic Arm Demo on the Embedded Artists i.MX 6SoloX
Storyboard Automotive Cluster on the TI Jacinto 6 running QNX
Our demos were also featured in other booths throughout the conference, including the NXP booth. Check out this distributed eCockpit on the i.MX 8, designed in Storyboard Suite.
In case you hadn’t heard, we recently released Storyboard Suite 5.0, so download a 30-day free evaluation and take it for a test drive. To try some of the demos showcased in the booth at Embedded World, download our easy-to-use demo images.
When working with any embedded platform it’s helpful to be able to quickly validate its capabilities and performance before investing the time and resources to create and deploy applications. Pre-built and packaged demos make it easy to test drive hardware with applications designed to its specifications.
Over the past several months we’ve been building a demo image library of application user interfaces created in Storyboard for a variety of platforms and hardware. Each demo image is built for a specific target with its unique capabilities, constraints, performance, and screen form factor in mind. The Storyboard user interface demos are packaged with simple instructions for getting the applications up and running on your target quickly.
Browse our library of Storyboard demos for platforms from NXP, STMicroelectronics, Microchip, and more. We will be adding new demos in the coming months, so check back often.
Here’s an example of one of the Storyboard demo images, a multi-market demo on the NXP i.MX 6QuadPlus:
Download a free 30-day trial to test drive Storyboard and create your own application UIs.
Some of the Crank Software team getting ready for day 1. What a friendly looking bunch!
Day 1 at Embedded World 2016 brought a lot of attendees to the Crank Software booth to check out some of the demos below and to chat with us about their projects. I think that a common theme that came up in conversations today was how scalable Storyboard Suite is, and the breadth of processors and operating systems that we support.
As proof of this wide range, check out the photos and video of demos from our booth (Hall 4/4-547).
***Updated with Video of Movie Theatre Kiosk***
Medical demo running on the TQa6x i.MX6, on Linux and with OpenGL ES rendering
Storyboard Suite Digital Instrument Cluster on the BD-SL-i.MX6 board, running Green Hills INTEGRITY OS.
Storyboard Suite dual display running on Texas Instrument’s Jacinto 6 on QNX (Image 1 of 2)
Storyboard Suite dual display running on Texas Instrument’s Jacinto 6 on QNX (Image 2 of 2)
Movie Theatre Kiosk demo built with Storyboard Suite and running on the NXP i.MX 6QuadPlus on Linux with OpenGL ES rendering
Storyboard Suite home automation demo on the Atmel SAM A5D4X on Linux with Monotype font rendering
Storyboard Suite white goods and home automation demos on STM32 series hardware running FreeRTOS
Storyboard Suite home automation demo on the Renesas RZ/A1 on Linux
Home automation demo designed with Storyboard Suite on the NXP i.MX 6SoloX
Storyboard Suite white goods (washing machine) demo on the i.MX 6UltraLite
If seeing these demos makes you want to try out Storyboard Suite, download a 30-day free evaluation and start designing today.
CES 2016 was earlier this month and we’re still reeling from trying to take in the sheer volume of innovative technology that was showcased. It’s mind-blowing just how much you can fit in a paltry 2.2 million net square feet of exhibit space. If you were at the show, we forgive you if you didn’t catch the Storyboard Suite HMI demos, especially given hoverboards were banned, leaving you to walk a million miles to see everything.
Don’t despair. We have photos and video to share from the show.
Photos & Video from Storyboard Suite Automotive and IoT HMI Demos
From innovative digital instrument clusters to in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems, Storyboard Suite automotive HMI demos were showcased in many booths at CES, including Visteon, Texas Instruments, QNX Software Systems, and others.
This quick Vine video from Visteon shows a dual OLED display with an innovative HMI designed in Storyboard Suite, with a second display remaining hidden until additional content is required:
This Periscope video from Texas Instruments shows a digital instrument cluster designed with Storyboard Suite:
Digital Instrument Clusters Photos
This Digital Instrument Cluster was one of two clusters designed with Crank Storyboard Suite as part of the QNX Software Systems interactive command center at CES, which showcased vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology.
Texas Instruments EvoCar Digital Instrument Cluster designed with Crank Storyboard Suite
Home Automation Photos
CES 2016 highlighted the best in smart home technologies, and we are thrilled that Storyboard Suite was behind exciting home automation demos at the event. NXP’s Internet of Tomorrow Tour, a giant trailer housing over 100 demos, showcased a home automation demo designed for FTF2015 by Crank Software and Freescale. In addition, our friends at Atmel demoed a home automation application designed with Storyboard Suite.
NXP Internet of Tomorrow Tour – Storyboard Suite home automation demo
Storyboard Suite home automation demo on the Atmel SAMA5D4, featuring video playback
The Crank Software demos at CES 2016 were created with the (very) soon-to-be-released Storyboard Suite 4.2 version, which will deliver new exciting functionality for GUI designers working with 3D graphics, including FBX support to enable integration of animated 3D models in Storyboard Designer, and support for advanced 3D multi-mesh models. We’ve further streamlined the design experience with group templates, multi-step animation recording, and a new Animation Preview that gives designers the capability to quickly view changes to animations directly in Storyboard Designer.
To find out more about what to expect in the Storyboard Suite 4.2 release, check out our recent webinar, now available on-demand.