Code blocks let you program Arduinos using drag-and-drop blocks. The blocks allow you to automatically build the text-based code in real time, so you can see exactly how Arduino code is formatted and then easily export your sketch to upload directly to an Arduino board. Check out the example below, where just two lines of block code help generate almost 30 lines of code!
Source: Code Blocks Powered by Scratch Blocks Now In Tinkercad! – Tinkercad Blog
Coding curricula is sweeping into classrooms across the country, thanks to programs such as Code.org. According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow students to apply specified computer science courses toward completion of mathematics, science or, as a foreign language. But is coding preoccupying the hearts and minds of students after school hours? This is the question that researchers at the MIT Media Lab are asking.
Source: How Scratch and Minecraft Developers Hope to Keep Kids Coding For Life | EdSurge News
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Beetle Blocks is a graphical blocks-based programming environment for 3D design and fabrication.Use code to control a beetle that can place 3D shapes and extrude its path as a tube. Then make a 3D print!
Write a blink program in Arduino is never that easy! You will see the Arduino board’s build-in LED blink as we expect. Use BlocklyDuino to drag and drop blocks as show in image. http://www.gasolin.idv.tw/public/blockly/demos/blocklyduino/index.html
Source: Write a blink program in Arduino is never that easy! You will see the Arduino…
In this hands on workshop, you will use the extensions for littleBits, Leap Motion, SparkFun’s Digital Sandbox and Makey Makey and the Make!Sense sensors with Scratch 2.0 to remix projects that change what you see on the screen by interacting with the physical world. Using challenge activities participants will learn the concepts by remixing projects on the spot with live help. Reflection, documentation and community support will be discussed and shared. Kreg Hanning (Lesley University, Cambridge, US) khanning@lesley.edu twitter: @khanning88 Susan Ettenheim (Eleanor Roosevelt High School, New York City, US) settenheim@erhsnyc.net twitter: @susanettenheim
Source: New Dimensions to Scratch
Tired of consuming? Let’s enjoy creating! Based on Scratch, Pyonkee provides a real, programming environment, anytime, anywhere! Pyonkee is a new dynamic media for developing various ideas. By combining visual blocks, kids/adults are able to create original games, animations, and stories on their own. Through the programming process, we will learn about logics, productivity, creativity, and collaborations. Pyonkee has been developed from the open-source code of “Scratch 1.4” from MIT Media Lab. Since Pyonkee is fully compatible with Scratch 1.4, millions of existing Scratch projects can be used for reference. Pyonkee’s user interface is optimized for touch interfaces. We do not need a cumbersome typing, even a mouse. Just program wherever you like. Pyonkee nicely supports pinch-in/out display, font scaling for small devices. Moreover, sound recorder and camera are provided for importing your sounds and pictures into the projects. We can mix various media on Pyonkee and program them. Dive into the fun of visual programming!
Ardublock is a graphical programming environment to make programming physical computing with Arduino as easy as drag and drop
via Ardublock.
S4A is a Scratch modification that allows for simple programming of the Arduino open source hardware platform. It provides new blocks for managing sensors and actuators connected to Arduino. There is also a sensors report board similar to the PicoBoard one.The main aim of the project is attracting people to the programming world. The goal is also to provide a high level interface to Arduino programmers with functionalities such as interacting with a set of boards through user events.
via S4A.
These projects test the capabilities of Scratch by implementing the algorithms in the CS Unplugged activities. Possible uses:
To demonstrate algorithms without carrying out the activities.
Review the activities that were done elsewhere.
Facilitate the transition from the activities to programming.
Students looking for advanced projects can modify or extend the projects.
via scratch-unplugged – Scratch Programs for Computer Science Unplugged – Google Project Hosting.
