Blockly summit link party

[feni...@google.com]

Thank you to everyone who came to the first day of the Blockly summit! 

We saw lots of interesting conversations happening in the chat, including lots of links to implementations of various features.

If you saw a cool link in the chat--of a demo, a feature implementation, a cool idea, or anything else--please share it here so that folks can take a look!

Cheers,

Rachel

[la...@masteragenda.com]

Hi Everybody! 
My lightning talk is 
Exploring an API with Blocks
Open source version of the blockly application:  github.com/docusign/api-request-builder-open-src
You can reach me on LinkedIn.
Regards,

Larry

[Beka Westberg]

Since my lightning talk didn't include slides I recorded a video of me giving the demo and answering the questions I received at the talk :D For those who weren't able to attend, the talk is about a more powerful connection checker plugin I've been working on, which implements things like generic types and parameterized types.

You can view the video here: https://youtu.be/R8bw3KmOrJs

Play with the demo here: http://bekawestberg.me/projects/blockly-nominal-connection-checker/

View the design document here: https://bit.ly/3edfxKt

And email me with comments or questions at this address: bekawe...@gmail.com

There are a lot of other really cool things I've seen during the summit! I'd love to post them right now :D But I'll give others a chance to post them with context first hehe.

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[ewpa...@gmail.com]

For those who are interested in learning more about the MIT App Inventor work with Alexa, here's a video overview with further links to resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGskt7mI4K8

[co...@cortscorner.net]

For those interested in Gearsbot, it can be found here. https://gears.aposteriori.com.sg/

If you're interested in how the multi-page is done, there's a simple example here...

https://gears.aposteriori.com.sg/test.html

[Abby Schmiedt]

A bit late to the party, but here is the link to the accessibility experiment and the branch on github. Just a reminder it is just a POC and very rough around the edges : ) 

Here is a link to the code that adds a search bar to the toolbox.

Cheers,

Abby

[feni...@google.com]

Some other cool links that I saw during the summit, and some links to Blockly documentation that came up during conversation:

- From Mike Travers, using Blockly as a visual query builder for biologists: slides

- ABB using Blockly for industrial robot programming: article and video
- MakeCodes tree diff code on GitHub

- Zoom to fit plugin that Monica showed: demo, which also links to the code and the plugin on npm

- Anjali's proof of concept library of unit test blocks on GitHub

- Neil's glockenspiel demo and the code on GitHub

- Documentation on UI events in Blockly

- Create package script for creating a plugin

- Custom renderers codelab

- MathJS is a library for translating formulas into JS

  - Neil noted that you would need to watch out for variable renaming if you use this directly

- A project that connects TensorFlow.js to Scratch

- PrimaryAI is trying to teach AI concepts to kids--includes a block-based environment inside a more general game system

- Server-side (headless) blockly demo

- Custom generator codelab

- Custom toolbox codelab

- Notes on Blockly in Klingon

- Grid dropdown plugin

- Workspace search plugin