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#1 2010-04-30 22:33:18
- fireball360
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- Registered: 2008-08-03
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I need ideas for my scratchboard!
What sensors can you make with the scratchboard using 2 1/2 gallon cartons of milk and the clips? I also need help with the clips. I would feel really bad if my mom wasted $50 on my birthday, so please tell me!
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Fireball360
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#2 2010-04-30 22:40:30
Re: I need ideas for my scratchboard!
Personally I would have traded it with something else.
Why would you need 2 1/2 gallons of milk? 
Lots of info on the PicoBoard is here: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6403
There's a whole forum for Sensor boards here(how could you have missed that): http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewforum.php?id=26
Hope it helped.
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#3 2010-05-01 02:44:05
- Paddle2See
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Re: I need ideas for my scratchboard!
You can make a lot of interesting things with the Sensor boards - but why the restriction to milk cartons? And are these cardboard or plastic milk cartons?
If it's a plastic carton, you might be able to make some kind of foot operated switch...then you could use it for a DDR type game or maybe a gas-pedal for a racing car simulation. Stretch a busted balloon over the mouth and secure in place with a rubber band. As you step on the carton, the increased air pressure will cause the balloon to bulge. If you put one of the clips in the center of the balloon and a second clip to something that was not moving, as you step on the carton, the clips would contact each other and the resistance would drop. That's the best I can come up with at 3:00 in the morning 
Going further with that idea...you could probably hook the slider up to the balloon and turn it into a multiple position control...even better for a gas pedal!
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#4 2010-05-01 18:10:14
- fireball360
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Re: I need ideas for my scratchboard!
Paddle2See wrote:
You can make a lot of interesting things with the Sensor boards - but why the restriction to milk cartons? And are these cardboard or plastic milk cartons?
Uh... cardboard cartons? Their plastic. If they were cardboard, would the milk sog thru?
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#5 2010-05-01 18:20:32
Re: I need ideas for my scratchboard!
fireball360 wrote:
Paddle2See wrote:
You can make a lot of interesting things with the Sensor boards - but why the restriction to milk cartons? And are these cardboard or plastic milk cartons?
Uh... cardboard cartons? Their plastic. If they were cardboard, would the milk sog thru?
No, they tend to coat them with wax or some plasticy substitute. Believe it or not, they also have milk bags where I live.
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