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✨📱 Bring Designs to Life with ProtoPie: No-Code Prototyping with Sensors, Hardware, & Multiple Devices

Date: June 20, 2025 4-6pm


Format: Hybrid (In-person with online access)


Tags: #design #prototyping #figma #arduino #esp32 #sensors #electronics


Imagine you’re working on an interactive project and you want to test out some of your ideas. Maybe you’re designing a polished UI frontend for your physical computing project, or a chat interface that connects multiple devices, or a sound-reactive display that runs off your phone’s mic.

You might think the only way to create a dynamic, working prototype is by coding (or vibe coding?) it out. But there’s another way!

This 2hr session will be a hand-on deep dive into ProtoPie — a no-code tool for building high-fidelity interactive prototypes that can respond to real inputs, like sensors, gestures, or hardware signals. You can barely tell they’re prototypes!

We’ll cover how to...

  • Bring designs into ProtoPie from Figma (or start from scratch)
  • Build dynamic interactions driven by data or user input
  • Connect to device sensors like tilt, sound, or proximity
  • Create multi-device prototypes that sync and communicate
  • Integrate with external APIs or microcontrollers (e.g. Arduino)

What you’ll need:

  • A Figma account (free!)
  • A ProtoPie account (free!)
  • A computer with ProtoPie and ProtoPie Connect both installed
  • A mobile device with the ProtoPie Player app installed (iOS or Android)
  • A USB cable for your phone <> computer
  • [optional] A microcontroller project using serial I/O (can be Arduino, ESP32, etc) and a USB cable to connect it to your computer

You’ll get the most out of this session if you have a basic working knowledge of Figma, but beginners are welcome too :)