NuScratch version of Whiskers

Hot off the press – No-Mod-Programming has done NuScratch version of Whiskers for RaspberryPi 🙂

To use on the Pi download the image file , unzip it  save it into /home/pi folder and make a copy of it

cp /home/pi/Whiskers.image /home/pi/NuWhiskers.image

(need to use sudo for these commands)

sudo cp /home/pi/NuWhiskers.image /usr/share/scratch
sudo cp /usr/bin/scratch /usr/bin/nuwhiskers

Then

sudo nano /usr/bin/nuwhiskers

and change line 10 to be

IMAGE="/usr/share/scratch/NuWhiskers.image"

and save it (CTRL-X followed by Y then enter)

Then to run Whiskers type

sudo bash /usr/bin/nuwhiskers

or create this file using the text editor in /home/pi/Desktop and call it whiskers.desktop

nano /home/pi/Desktop/nuwhiskers.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
 Encoding=UTF-8
 Version=1.0
 Type=Application
 Exec=nuwhiskers
 Icon=scratch
 Terminal=false
 Name=NuWhiskers
 Comment= Programming system and content development tool
 Categories=Application;Education;Development;
 MimeType=application/x-scratch-project

 

If you want to run ScratchGPIO with NuWhiskers then follow these isntructions supplied by  Steve aka “@NoSheds” on twitter

You must already have Scratch GPIO7 installed.  If you haven’t, then follow these instructions

Create a NuWhiskers GPIO desktop icon:

 nano /home/pi/Desktop/nuwhiskersgpio7.desktop

paste in

[Desktop Entry]
 Encoding=UTF-8
 Version=1.0
 Type=Application
 Exec=/opt/scratchgpio7/nuwhiskersgpio7.sh
 Icon=scratch
 Terminal=false
 Name=NuWhiskersGPIO 7
 Comment= Programming system and content development tool
 Categories=Application;Education;Development;
 MimeType=application/x-scratch-project

Create a shell script to run ScratchGPIO with NuWhiskers.  Simplest way to get the file permissions etc is just to copy the existing scratchgpio7.sh file

sudo cp /opt/scratchgpio7/scratchgpio7.sh /opt/scratchgpio7/nuwhiskersgpio7.sh

then edit it with

sudo nano /opt/scratchgpio7/nuwhiskersgpio7.sh

and change the last line from scratch to muwhiskers:

nuwhiskers --document "/home/pi/Documents/Scratch Projects/rsc.sb" &

 

Simon

Contact me if this doesn’t work

 

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15 Responses

  1. Hi Simon,

    I am using NuScratch on RPi. However, I am trying to figure out how it can be used to control motors. Please advise. Thanks,

    Simon

  2. six says:

    Hi! I follow the instrucion above but at the end the terminal repaly me with this error” Executing: /usr/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/squeakvm -encoding UTF-8 -vm-display-x11 -plugins /usr/lib/scratch/plugins/:/usr/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/ /usr/share/scratch/NuWhiskers.image
    This interpreter (vers. 0) cannot read image file (vers. 6521).
    Press CR to quit…” have you a solution?

    • cymplecy says:

      Hi
      I just ran through the instructions again on a PiZero
      Worked OK for me
      I imagine you maybe didn’t succeed editing /usr/bin/nuwhiskers and changing line 10 to
      IMAGE="/usr/share/scratch/NuWhiskers.image"
      Simon

      • six says:

        I try many time and I edit well (just copy and past than save) but the terminal reply me as before 🙁
        please help me it’s important …
        have you other suggestion?

        • cymplecy says:

          Are you using 27May6 Raspian image?

          if so, please attach your /usr/bin/nuwhiskers file
          (or photo of 1st page of code if that’s easier)

          Simon

          • six says:

            1. I’ve got raspbian jessie. I dont know if is it the same image that you said. I bought rpi with the noobs preinstalled on the sdcard.
            how can i chek it?
            2. i type on lxterminal “/usr/bin/nuwhiskers” and than repplay me as before
            ” Executing: /usr/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/squeakvm -encoding UTF-8 -vm-display-x11 -plugins /usr/lib/scratch/plugins/:/usr/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/ /usr/share/scratch/NuWhiskers.image
            This interpreter (vers. 0) cannot read image file (vers. 6521).
            Press CR to quit…”
            3. i don’t have any folder nuwhiskers in “/usr/bin/…. but only the file:
            nuwhiskers; nuwhiskers.save1; and nuwhiskers.save2

            thats all …. thanks!!

          • cymplecy says:

            🙂
            One problem could be that the version of Jessie that you have pre-isntalled on the card may be too old -its a common problem

            The main information I need is to see the contents of /usr/bin/nuwhiskers as I believe that is incorrect

            Are you able to do

            nano /usr/bin/nuwhiskers

            and then photograph what you see and send it to me simplecy@googlemail.com

            thanks
            Simon

  3. George Skillas says:

    I am facing exactly the same problem as six, here is my /usr/bin/scratch (I wanted to replace it seamlessly)

    #!/bin/sh
    # File: scratch
    # Description: Script to start the Squeak VM binary with the scratch image
    # Original Author: Bert Freudenberg
    # Adapted by: Miriam Ruiz

    VM_VERSION=`find /usr/lib/squeak/ -name “squeakvm” -type f|cut -f5 -d”/”`
    SQ_DIR=/usr/lib/squeak/$VM_VERSION
    VM=”$SQ_DIR/squeakvm”
    VMOPTIONS=”-encoding UTF-8 -vm-display-x11 -xshm -plugins /usr/lib/scratch/plugins/:$SQ_DIR/”
    IMAGE=”/usr/share/scratch/Whiskers.image”
    IMOPTIONS=””
    DOCUMENT=””
    WRAPPER=””

    #set to 1 to work around OLPC bug #8008
    export SQUEAK_FAKEBIGCURSOR=0

    # default directories (used if not running as Sugar activity)
    [ -z “$SQUEAK_SECUREDIR” ] && export SQUEAK_SECUREDIR=”$HOME/.scratch/private”
    [ -z “$SQUEAK_USERDIR” ] && export SQUEAK_USERDIR=”$HOME/Scratch”

    [ ! -d “$SQUEAK_SECUREDIR” ] && mkdir -p “$SQUEAK_SECUREDIR” && chmod 700 “$SQUEAK_SECUREDIR”
    [ ! -d “$SQUEAK_USERDIR” ] && mkdir -p “$SQUEAK_USERDIR”

    [ ! -d “$HOME/Documents” ] && mkdir -p “$HOME/Documents”

    usage()
    {
    echo “Usage: scratch [–param value] [-vmopt value] [arg value]”
    echo ” where –param is –vm, –image, or –document;”
    echo ” -vmopt is an option passed to the Squeak VM;”
    echo ” and args are passed to the Squeak image.”
    }

    if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
    case “$1″ in
    /*) DOCUMENT=”$1″
    ;;
    *) DOCUMENT=”$PWD/$1”
    ;;
    esac
    shift
    else
    while [ -n “$1” ] ; do
    if [ -z “$2” ] ; then
    usage
    exit -1
    fi
    case “$1” in
    –help)
    usage
    exit
    ;;
    –document)
    case “$2″ in
    /*) DOCUMENT=”$2″
    ;;
    *) DOCUMENT=”$PWD/$2”
    ;;
    esac
    shift
    ;;
    –image)
    case “$2″ in
    /*) IMAGE=”$2″
    ;;
    *) IMAGE=”$PWD/$2”
    ;;
    esac
    shift
    ;;
    –vm)
    case “$2″ in
    /*) VM=”$2″
    ;;
    *) VM=”$PWD/$2″
    ;;
    esac
    shift
    ;;
    -*) VMOPTIONS=”$VMOPTIONS $1 $2″
    shift
    ;;
    *) IMOPTIONS=”$IMOPTIONS $1 $2”
    shift
    ;;
    esac
    shift
    done
    fi

    # do not crash on dbus errors
    export DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0

    # make Compose input methods work
    # 30/01/2013: apprently this causes issues, so comment out. asb@asbradbury.org
    #[ -z “$LC_ALL” ] && export LC_ALL=”$LANG”

    VMOPTIONS=”$VMOPTIONS -vm-sound-alsa”

    # VM, Image, and Document are non-optional
    # Document has to be present even if empty for IMOPTIONS to work
    echo Executing: $WRAPPER “$VM” $VMOPTIONS “$IMAGE” “$DOCUMENT” $IMOPTIONS
    exec $WRAPPER “$VM” $VMOPTIONS “$IMAGE” “$DOCUMENT” $IMOPTIONS

    • cymplecy says:

      All I can suggest is to follow my instructions and make sure that works first.

      Then you can go on to try and replace Scratch with NuWhiskers (but I really don’t see why you’d want to) 🙂

      Simon

  4. George Skillas says:

    Dear Simon,

    I sorted it out, I needed to get nuScratch first, as I had the base squeak version and not the optimised one. Now I am getting an error using the “If I am a clone” hat block. I cannot save the project, I get an error:

    MessageNotUnderstood: WhenCloneHatBlock>>asBlockTuple

    Also, the hat block “When SPACE is pressed” gets transformed into
    the hat block “When backdrop switches to SPACE” which does not make sense. This happens as soon as I have used “When I am a clone” hat block.

  5. George Skillas says:

    Dear Simon

    to be a bit more precise, as long as there is no error (debug message in a separate window) saving works no problem. After an error, any attempt to save leads to KEY pressed hat blocks being transformed into “When backdrop switches to KEY”. also the saved data reflect this (i.e. are nonsensical). Closing whiskers, starting it anew and loading such a file shows “When backdrop switches to KEY” hat blocks instead of the “KEY pressed” hat blocks. Correcting the blocks is futile, since at saving they get converted to “When backdrop switches to KEY”.

    Best regards,

    George (I should have opened a different thread)

    • cymplecy says:

      I’d ask these sort of questions on the Scratch forum Whiskers thread.
      But I think the author has abandoned development 🙁

      Simon

  6. Stephen Cook says:

    I am using whiskers but it keeps causing errors and crashing. Has anyone else had problems with whiskers?

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