Social discussion of CS in K-12

[Charles Schultz <sacrophyte AT gmail.com>]

Jeff Giner sent me a note about Scratch and Arduino, which got me to thinking, what about Scratch that is already on Raspberry Pi and the GPIO pins? It seems like it wouldn't take much to put some motors on that (which an additional power source).

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte AT gmail.com> wrote:

Have any of you stumbled across a good hybrid of Legos and either eToys or Scratch (anything built on the Squeak platform)? I know there have been discussions about it on various forums, but not sure if we have played around with it locally or not. I am a big proponent of working with my hands (that's the way I learn), and I would love to "be a kid again" and witness the marriage of Legos and Scratch and share that unending fun with my kids and the students I work with.

Espeically with mobile apps and technology going the way it is, I would love to see a mobile app that can control this "physical etoy" as well. I know the technology is there, but is it accessible, yet?

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Charles Schultz

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Charles Schultz