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Scratch 1.4 Messaging on Windows Computers for Schools
My ScratchGPIO for the Raspberry Pi can send messages between 2 computers so I’ve made a version that runs on Windows so that two windows PCs running Scratch 1.4 can send messages between themselves...
Scratch on Ipad – Pyonkee
We now have a Scratch clone for the IPad called Pyonkee This is great news at last as a lot of young Scratchers only have IPads nowadays and not desktop/laptop computers at home How...
Raspberry Pi Auto-Hotspot
Initial software from http://blog.sip2serve.com/post/48420162196/howto-setup-rtl8188cus-on-rpi-as-an-access-point The concept of headless Pi at Jams and in classrooms has always been a subject close to my heart and recently I’ve been trying to go down the route of...
Why Traffic Lights are good for Computing
I’m well known for promoting the simulation of Traffic Lights using Scratch so I thought it was about time I said why and explained how good they are for the new computing curric. History...
Arduino class-set in Year 6
Today I tried out a class-set of 15 Arduinos with LEDs with Win 7 laptops with a Year 6 class with past experience of Scratch. First issue was that I only managed to get 8 set-ups working...
Pin Trigger handling in ScratchGPIO
I was looking at some of William Bell’s RPiScratchIO scratch code and notice that he had the concept of receiving broadcasts on inputs pins changing state. So I’ve started implementing this (in dev version)...
Sending messages between Raspberry Pi using ScratchGPIO
NB Only available in dev version http://cymplecy.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/scratchgpio-development-testing/ For a while I’ve wanted one computer running a Traffic Light program to easily talk to a Pi running as robot vehicle so that the robot can...
Change to Ultrasonic behaviour
Dev Version only My ultrasonic handling code now runs in its own separate thread and defaults to returning an update distance measurement every 1 sec. This can be change by creating an UltraDelay variable...
Raspberry Pi SID testing using LAN->Laptop cable
Today I took my 6 Pi into one of my schools and connected them up to the school Win7 Pro laptops using a direct CAT5 cable and powered them from USB charger batteries. They...
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