Scratch

I now know what do do with my birthday money. 

Ummm... Could anyone tell me how to connect a touch lcd panel to the R-pi? Or maybe just a lcd panel?

I havent managed to get hold of a Raspberry Pi (on order) but have followed the instructions in the official videos to set up a comparable development environment on a windows machine. (a VirtualBox VM with 256MB RAm and 8GB hard disk). It has debian squeeze installed.

The problem I am having is installing Scratch - the Debian/Ubuntu package doesnt recognise all the dependencies. i have located a patch file indicating what needs to be changed but have zero knowledge on how to apply it. I am an absolute linux newbie.

Any suggestions as to how I could create a working package for my needs?

Thank You

Jonathan Smith
ICT Coordinator
Portsmouth High School

porsmitj2 wrote:

I havent managed to get hold of a Raspberry Pi (on order) but have followed the instructions in the official videos to set up a comparable development environment on a windows machine. (a VirtualBox VM with 256MB RAm and 8GB hard disk). It has debian squeeze installed.

The problem I am having is installing Scratch - the Debian/Ubuntu package doesnt recognise all the dependencies. i have located a patch file indicating what needs to be changed but have zero knowledge on how to apply it. I am an absolute linux newbie.

Any suggestions as to how I could create a working package for my needs?

Thank You

Jonathan Smith
ICT Coordinator
Portsmouth High School

Well..... You need the dependancies, of course. 

You need a list of the dependancies, and get them with apt-get in the terminal. That should download and install the packages (and any dependancies for those) with very little intervention from you.

You might even be able to use the Aptitude package manager (Debian may or may not have it, I don't remember) to get Scratch, and all the dependancies in one download.

Mokat wrote:

I want one, but I doubt that I could afford it

$35 seems rather affordable.
It's less than the cost of an average video game, nowadays.

You could probably even convince parents to buy it for you.

soupoftomato wrote:

Mokat wrote:

I want one, but I doubt that I could afford it

$35 seems rather affordable.
It's less than the cost of an average video game, nowadays.

You could probably even convince parents to buy it for you.

My dad probably would give me a lecture about how I already have a laptop and I don't need one   
Oh and I can't afford it because I recently spent $100 worth of add-ons for my wii XD

Puppylinux anyone?

Laternenpfahl wrote:

Snowdrift wrote:

They Say In Summer They Will Start Selling Then With Cases, So Should I Wait Until Then?

Wait Why Are You Capitalizing Everything? It Doesnt Make Sense To Me. Why?Meza Hippocrite

Not exactly the point right now 

hdarken wrote:

I wish they would add a different version with more RAM.

It would be alot more expensive though. They said 256MB was the most they could fit in at a decent price. 

porsmitj2 wrote:

I havent managed to get hold of a Raspberry Pi (on order) but have followed the instructions in the official videos to set up a comparable development environment on a windows machine. (a VirtualBox VM with 256MB RAm and 8GB hard disk). It has debian squeeze installed.

The problem I am having is installing Scratch - the Debian/Ubuntu package doesnt recognise all the dependencies. i have located a patch file indicating what needs to be changed but have zero knowledge on how to apply it. I am an absolute linux newbie.

Any suggestions as to how I could create a working package for my needs?

Thank You

Jonathan Smith
ICT Coordinator
Portsmouth High School

This forum isn't for educators, so you might want to look at ScratchEd.

Anyway, you could probably take the Squeak image (.image) and put it on the RPi, and download a VM.

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Laternenpfahl wrote:

Blueberry pi
- 1gb ram
- 1ghz CPU
-2 USB slots
- direct SD slot
- Video output ( idk wut kind )
- Linux preinstalled

Anyone?

Sounds good, but would probably $50-65, which is a bit more than I want to pay for.

Mine still hasn't come yet.
>_>