Friday, April 26, 2019

Maritime archaeology: VIDEO of Rover Robot with Lego WeDo2 programming blocks here - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1121866180577259520 - in action * * * Photo of Rover Robot NEWLY with SCRATCH 3.0 programming language here * * * seeking to connect with Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser (based in Nevada City / Berkeley) to explore recording my first Scottish small pipes bagpiping CD in 2020 "Honey in the Bag" as a duet > he's inspiring and interesting musically (and as a Scot as well)



Hi M, 

Methinks it would be fun, make for a potentially inspired CD, and I'd learn a lot if I could play with Alasdair Fraser on my CD. 

See the "Hi Patti, Barbara and Bruce ..." part of the email here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/mistletoe-how-best-to-invite-scots-in.html - which you may have already read. 

So seeking to connect with Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser (based in Nevada City / Berkeley) to explore recording my first Scottish small pipes bagpiping CD in 2020 "Honey in the Bag" as a duet > he's inspiring and interesting musically (and as a Scot as well). May head to one of their (the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers') spring concerts this weekend in these regards, re here's Alasdair - 





I haven't given a talk at Stanford yet, and have given 4 I think at UC Berkeley since 2012 - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - and here's my most recent one from Nov 2018 - 

https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I - with a focus on Harbin and robotics too. Would like to explore giving a talk at Stanford ... possibly in the Archaeology department ...  

How's your cold doing? :)



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Hi M,

Thanks for your nice email, and hope you get your voice back soon. (I think you told me about AirBorne which seems to be an advance on strategies for the common cold - but only in certain bolstering immune system cold-situations, and I think I also get zinc/similar mineral in my daily multi-vitamin). And there seem to be relatively few colds around out west here, but I also don't circulate with kids very much these days, which could change if I have my own at some point:)

As I update the Easter Egg of my Apple MacBook computer by transferring data from a recent Apple Time Machine backup, it looks like I'm getting FileVault as the new OS 10.13 is installed. Probably a good thing, since FV is getting to be mature software. Have to make a lot of inferences about what's going on with software, since one can't be sure - seems like any information technology can be hacked by other information technology as information ... in this new world ... typing on my old MacBook Pro computer, even as my MacBook Air gets my files from before ... could take a couple of hours.  

Looking forward to learning Scratch 3.0 with my Lego WeDo2 robotics newly now. Have to think through investing in Lego Mindstorms EV3 eventually ... now that I'll be able to use Scratch 3.0 with it too. :)

Wikidata Libraries' Affinity Group ... and re Harvard / Stanford / Cornell and World University and School (in 7 k languages) ... 

Interesting Stanford networking recently ... with some further generative qualities ... 

Hoping you get your voice back soon, and get past your cold soon! :)

L, Scott


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Good morning, ma mere!

How was your week? And are you heading out to amble with friends through spring Pittsburgh momentarily? :) 

Mac OS 10.13 went on successfully ... also now have Siri on my lap top to experiment with ... new back ups to Time Machine are already made ... soon to play with Lego WeDo2.0 robotics WITH Scratch 3.0 ... here's the idea - 

https://youtu.be/PS81XMj-gDo (and even with a new piece of robotics / hardware / circuit board for learning with Scratch called Micro:Bit, which I've tried but don't have yet, but may get too). 

Unitarian Universalist-oriented, and singing oriented as well, who knows ... great, too :)? As you may have been reading in emails, World Univ & Sch seeks to create online real real time virtual choirs (of many stripes) ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir ... and Bruce Olstad choir director at the UUCPA could be a great musical director for this online ... and perhaps to connect with other UU churches in the SF Bay Area even (e.g. in Livermore :) so they could have the gift of music-making and singing as well. 


Life gets kind of diffuse in California, USA, post-modernity and the information age re family creation :) But Stanford (as well as traveling to Harbin) center things for me a bit ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/oasis.html :)



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Description of getting Scratch 3.0 working with a robot ...


Well, - I connected newly the Scratch 3.0 software in a web browser tab wirelessly to the Lego WeDo2 a) SmartHub (containing batteries and a chip), and b) motor, then added three Scratch blocks to the coding area in tab - and I could run these a & b by clicking the 'green flag' button in Scratch from the web browser interface. I was working partly from 

https://youtu.be/2eNEbx4cO8o. It worked, briefly - cool. (But then didn't work ... hmmm ... ) 

So back to Lego WeDo2 and seeking to make a vehicle (per video above), I snapped together a Mars Rover from the helpful WeDo2 tutorial (which I had played through a few months ago:) ... added some WeDo2 programming coding 'BLOCKS' - and the little vehicle ran too from the WeDo2 code. Cool. VIDEO of Rover with WeDo2 blocks here 



Photo of Rover with SCRATCH 3.0 here - 



Then back to the Scratch programming interface BLOCKS, and clicked green flag and it worked - so I can run a & b from either interface. 

So 'on to' Mars, or to Harbin Hot Springs, or to underwater marine archaeology with Lego submarine robots ... virtually in imagination ... and with robotics for scientific exploration ... And with OS 10.13 and Scratch 3.0, I can also use the Translate extension with WeDo2 robotics - so can record voices and make the robots speak and converse, e.g. 

https://youtu.be/PS81XMj-gDo - again . Cool ...  

Cleared off a bigger play space on my table ... and all of this is not yet in a realistic virtual earth (thinking Google Street View with Brick Street View , where 'brick' refers to a Lego brick ... and now newly with Lego robotics, since Brick Street View didn't code for Lego Robotics) ... and I can eventually move on to A) Lego Mindstorms EV3 with Scratch 3.0 and B) Micro:Bit with Scratch 3.0 and C) even for flying Legos, Kitables .. . Mini Lego Drone Kit – Kitables.co - 

https://youtu.be/8lylgo9e-gg not necessarily with Scratch 3 language. 

Can now make robots with new programming language all thanks to OS 10.13 newly on my laptop computer. 

Have thought how it would be interesting to travel around to many countries re World Univ & Sch, and get the smallest little excellent robot in every country I visit ... have also thought it would be great to bring a new robot I made out of Lego to every talk / country ... 

L, Scott

Scratch 3.0 with Lego Robotics WeDo 2.0 NEWLY (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics :), connected newly the Scratch 3.0 software in a web browser tab wirelessly to the Lego WeDo2 a) SmartHub (containing batteries and a chip), and b) motor, then added 3 Scratch blocks https://youtu.be/2eNEbx4cO8o 
Scratch 3.0 with Lego Robotics WeDo 2.0 VIDEO ( :), connected newly the Scratch 3.0 software in a web browser tab wirelessly to the Lego WeDo2 a) SmartHub (containing batteries and a chip), and b) motor, then added 3 Scratch blocks  ~







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