Scratch 3.0

[Wendt, Michelle]

Does it work with scratch 3.0?

Michelle Wendt

Technology Integrationist

SRI&ETTC of Stockton University

[vorpalrobotics]

I'm in the middle of porting it over to Scratch 3 right now. Hoping to launch by end of this month.

[Javier Garzón]

quisiera saber si ya tienen la integracion con Scratch 3.0

[vorpalrobotics]

Hello,

Scratch 3 has turned out to be a problem because MIT has not provided a mechanism for third parties to integrate (as they previously did with scratchx in scratch 2).

The only way I can see to do it is to take the entire open source scratch source tree and deploy it on my own server. This will increase my expenses quite a bit, though, and I feel like it's going to be painful to get it working.

So I am evaluating other alternative systems that are similar like snap and blockly. But it turns out there are a huge number of such alternatives, meaning it's slow going to evaluate them all and figure out which one to commit to. I also keep hoping MIt will open up their system to outside integrations. Alas, they seem interested more in large corporate integrations than the open source community.

I realize chrome will stop supporting scratch 2 by end of 2020. I should have something up and running before then.

[bre...@hatcher.co.za]

Otto (https://www.ottodiy.com/)  had the same challenge.

They used Blockly to create a really customised interface:

- code  https://github.com/OttoDIY/blockly 

- online demo https://ottodiy.github.io/blockly/www/

It works really well.

Regards

Brendon 

[nikolaj erichsen]

Hi I wonder if there is any news on using scratch 3.0 - I would really like to use it with the Vorpal :)
Or if anyone know another easy way to program it with blocks...

[vorpalrobotics]

My current strategy is to create a Python module for the hexapod first, then use one of several publicly available blockly python systems to offer a complete block based system.

I have a preliminary Python module being beta tested right now, so that stage of the process is well underway. I am evaluating a few different blocky python open source solutions. It should be very easy to add the hexapod specific blocks to an existing python blockly system.

[nikolaj erichsen]

ok, sounds super cool, I ready to betatest if you need it :)

[vorpalrobotics]

You're willing to beta test the python solution, or you wan to wait for the drag and drop blockly solution? I'll be doing a round of enhancements to python that should be ready for a second beta tester by Monday or so.

[nikolaj erichsen]

I am ready to test the python solution, I guess the blocky part will come later.

[Ben Norman]

I'm game to beta-test the python solution as well.

Thanks!

[nikolaj erichsen]

Hi, if you have a status on either Scratch 3 or Blocky, I would be very happy, cause I miss using my Hexapod :)