Tulip Web

Welcome to a version of Tulip running locally in your browser.

Tulip is a creative computer running Python with lots of music and graphics functionality. You can buy a hardware Tulip for $59.

This version of Tulip runs locally in your browser. The files are stored in your browsers' storage. It's almost perfectly like a real Tulip, including support for MIDI, graphics, synthesis and Python. There's some small differences, see below.

If you've never used Tulip before, please check out the examples above and these getting started tips:

Some notes on the web port:

• If you're using Private Browsing mode, we can't keep your files around after you reload. And on Firefox Private Browsing, the page won't work at all. Don't worry, we're not doing anything nefarious here. No data leaves this page, unless you choose to connect to Tulip World to send a message or download a program. Everything is open source.
• MIDI works on all browsers except for Safari
• Some Tulip network calls may fail if the CORS settings of the destination prevent it. Some networking methods may return a JS "promise" rather than an immediate Python result.
• Anything relying on Python's input will fail -- use tulip.key_wait or keyboard_callback instead.
• Do not use time.sleep() in your code as it will block all input, audio and graphics from updating. Instead, use Tulip callbacks, asyncio or tulip.defer if you want to block or defer execution in Tulip.