[rant] But nice
I've come to the external I/O scratch party late but been working with Scratch in English primary schools for years now
I basically would like Scratch (or variant) to be able to communicate with a variety of external devices (Ardunio, DataHarvest FlowGo boxes,RaspberryPi - anything that can listen/talk through USB or TCP/IP.
I'd like blocks in Scratch to have "set output 1 On/off/Invert" read value of A/D port 1, set motor 1 forward/backwards/reverse 50% etc
There are MANY people/projects doing some/all of this but they are scattered around the world and doing their own things
S4A, Enchanting, Sense to name but a few (here is my small effort -http://cymplecy.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/how-i-got-scratch-talking-to-my-raspberry_pi/ )
Could not one of the grown-ups pull things together and JGTS
Please
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How about using remote sensor connections to communicate with a python script that can perform these functions?
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How about using remote sensor connections to communicate with a python script that can perform these functions?
Thats what mine does (you helped me with that )- input isn't too bad as Scratch knows about Picoboards - its the output that's the main issue, either proprietry (WeDo) or fragmented Sense,S4A etc etc
Simon
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