Scratch and Simple and Motorized Mechanisms Base Set

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Eleanor Cerny

Member

February 02, 2012

Does anyone know if LEGO Simple and Motorized Machines is compatible with Scratch? Link below to the LEGO product. Thank you.

Lego Education Simple Machines

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Kazuhiro Abe

Member

February 05, 2012

Just FYI.

I and friends are working to make an inexpensive robot kit named NanoBoardAG now. The target price is under $40. It includes all bricks and devices (motor, controller, etc). NanoBoardAG is based on Arduino and compatible with WeDo and PicoBoard.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/abee/2297128
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/haru88/2312017
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFa-VDtmZM

We hope to bring it to next Scratch@MIT.

P.S. Scratch 1.4 can control LEGO PF Light 8870 by motor blocks with a little modification. Here is a mod that include it. http://squeakland.jp/abee/tmp/SensorBoardWithMotor.zip

Karen Brennan

Member

February 02, 2012

Hi Eleanor,

I asked Mitch and John (the lead developer of Scratch) and here is how they responded:

Comment from Mitch:
This kit includes a motor and light, and includes a battery box for controlling them. To control these elements from a computer, you would also need the "controller" that comes with the LEGO WeDo kit -- or you can buy this controller (officially known as the LEGO USB Hub) separately (http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/product/lego_usb_hub/1655).

Comment from John:
I assume that the motor could be plugged into a WeDo hub and controlled from Scratch. Scratch doesn't have a block to control the light.