Saturday, April 13, 2019

Phasmida (stick insects): Scratch 3 drag and drop programming language, ROBOTICS & hardware are CONNECTABLE - List grows: ... * * * Hoping 'Brick Street View' will develop in 'Google Street View' for realistic virtual earth for Lego robotics and that it is also programmable with Scratch 3! (Not sure this is it, but there's a 'TensorFlow World' conference (re Google's machine learning library for research and production) in San Jose, CA, in October) ... and especially re a beginning codable-with-Scratch 1-1 actual-virtual, physical-digital Lego train in Google Street View/Maps/Earth, then WeDo 2, then Mindstorms EV3 then SPIKE then Micro:Bit ... and even at the cellular and atomic levels eventually :)


Hi Cindy, Bernardo, Irene and Felicia, 

Scratch, robotics and hardware that are connectable - the list grows:

Hardware that can Connect to Scratch
Below is a list of hardware that Scratch can connect to.

Scratch 3, ROBOTICS & hardware are CONNECTIABLE - List grows:

- Lego SPIKE
- Mindstorms EV3
- LEGO WeDo 2
- Micro:bit
- GoPiGo Raspberry Pi Robot
- Microphone
- GrovePi for the Raspberry Pi
- Joystick
- Arduino Board



Best, Scott



Mindstorms EV3

LEGO WeDo 2.0
Main article: LEGO Education WeDo Robotics Kit
The LEGO Education WeDo Robotics Kit is a simple robotics tool designed for ages 7–11. It allows users to design their own robots, and then program the robots using drag-and-drop software like Scratch. In Scratch, the Motor Blocks can control the robot's motor, turning it on or off, changing the power or direction.

GoPiGo Raspberry Pi Robot
Main article: Dexter Industries GoPiGo For Raspberry Pi
Gopigo Raspberry Pi Robot In Scratch.png
With the GoPiGo you can control a Raspberry Pi robot with Scratch Programming. Scratch can be used to control the robot motors, LEDs, and sensors.

Microphone
Main article: Loudness (value)
If a microphone is connected to the computer, Scratch can sense the volume of the sound from the microphone, on a scale of 0-100. If no microphone is connected, it is 0 or -1. The Loudness block contains the value.

Webcam
Main article: Watch Me Move!
In Scratch 2.0, a new feature was added that allows Scratchers to use Microsoft Kinect-like features in Scratch. The video feed can be shown on the stage (with transparency), and the motion of the video can be obtained as well.

GrovePi for the Raspberry Pi
Main article: GrovePi for Raspberry Pi
Dexter Industries GrovePi Kit
The GrovePi The Dexter Industries GrovePi is an Internet of Things device built on the Raspberry Pi. Scratch can be used to control LEDs, and read sensors like an ultrasonic sensor, noise sensor, and light sensor.

Joystick
Main article: JoyTail
With the JoyTail extension, Scratch can use remote sensor connections to connect to a joystick.

Arduino Board
With the Catenary extension, an Arduino board can be controlled through Scratch. This project was being made by Chalkmarrow, but never seems to have been completed.

LEGO Mindstorms NXT
LEGO Mindstorms NXT is a programmable robotics kit released by LEGO in late July 2006, as a successor to the now obsolete RCX kit. The main component in the kit is a brick-shaped computer called the NXT Intelligent Brick. The Scratch modification Enchanting can be used to program LEGO NXT robots.

Finch
Finch is a small simple robot for computer science education designed by Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. It is powered via a USB cable. It can be easily connected to Scratch via a helper application, the "BirdBrain Robot Server".

Hummingbird
Hummingbird is a robot created for education in 2010 by BirdBrain Technologies. It is powered via a USB cable. Like the Finch, it is easily connected to Scratch via BirdBrain Robot Server.

Micro:bit
Micro:bit is a small computer which is able to be programmed. It was created in 2015 after being designed by the BBC. It has its own block language similar to scratch but is also compatible with Scratch.


Hardware that can no longer connect to Scratch
Below is a list of hardware that used to be able to connect to Scratch but is no longer able to.

PicoBoard
Main article: PicoBoard

A diagram of a PicoBoard.
A PicoBoard is a piece of electronic equipment that allowed Scratch projects to interact with the outside world. It could sense light and sound, along with having a button and slider, and alligator clips. It was used with the () Sensor Value and Sensor ()? blocks. The PicoBoard is not supported by Scratch 3.0.[1]

Lego Wedo 1.0
Main article: LEGO Education WeDo Robotics Kit
The Lego Wedo version 1.0 was succeeded by Lego Wedo 2.0 in 2016 and is no longer supported by Scratch. In Scratch, the Motor Blocks could control the robot's motor, turning it on or off, changing the power or direction. Lego WeDo 1.0 is no longer supported by Scratch.[2]



How are all of you? 

Cheers, Scott


*

Hi Felicia and All, 

How to invite OzoBot Evo et al. to become Scratch 3 programmable, I wonder?

Each educational robotics' kit or piece of programmable hardware could become a course or more at World University and School for college students and high school kids - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities.

Hoping 'Brick Street View' will develop in 'Google Street View' for realistic virtual earth for Lego robotics and that is also programmable with Scratch 3! (Not sure this is it, but there's a 'TensorFlow World' conference (re Google's machine learning library for research and production) in San Jose, CA, in October) - hoping this is it -

https://twitter.com/edd/status/1115317260166389761

 ... and especially re a beginning codable-with-Scratch 1-1 actual-virtual, physical-digital Lego train in Google Street View, then WeDo 2, then Mindstorms EV3 then SPIKE then Micro:Bit ... and even at the cellular and atomic levels eventually :)

TensorFlow - https://www.tensorflow.org/ - 
is 'an open source machine learning library for research and production.'



Cheers, 
Scott



* *

And eventually, like Lego SPIKE (for classrooms - in August), could we make species' realistic leaf insect robots



https://twitter.com/rishipatel05/status/1116613954438959106

(https://twitter.com/RobotShop/status/1116302044762136576)



* *

Scratch 3, ROBOTICS & hardware are CONNECTABLE - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/phasmida-stick-insects-scratch-3-drag.html - List grows:

SPIKE
Mindstorms EV3
LEGO WeDo 2
Micro:bit
GoPiGo Raspberry Pi Robot
Microphone
GrovePi for the Raspberry Pi
Joystick
Arduino Board

https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Hardware_that_can_Connect_to_Scratch
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1117208820122411008

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1117156881623990272

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1117208278155403265


*
Scratch 3.0 with language extension will work in MANY (Google translate) languages! .... Scratch 3, ROBOTICS & hardware are CONNECTABLE - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/phasmida-stick-insects-scratch-3-drag.html - List grows:
SPIKE
Mindstorms EV3
LEGO WeDo 2
Micro:bit
https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Hardware_that_can_Connect_to_Scratch
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1117210748046807040





*


















...



Posted by at
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)