Simple (and cheap) way of using Scratch on the RaspberryPI for control projects

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Simon Walters

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October 14, 2012

I'm developing this to use firstly in after school robot club and then I want to use a set of 6 RaspberryPi in a Year6 class as an alternative to using the DataHarvest FlowGo hardware/GO software.

I love the FlowGo Hardware (but can't afford a load of them at £99 each) and I don't love the GO software (compared to Scratch :) ) so I've taken the pi-face interface software (July 2012 edition) and modified it so that you can control the GPIO pins on a RaspberryPi and therefore start using Scratch to control external devices as cheaply as possible.

Links

Installing

https://cymplecy.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/scratch-controlling-the-gpio-on-a-raspberrypi/

Robot Club

https://cymplecy.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/after-school-mini-bytes-club/

Geek stuff on forum

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=19179