This week, Liam has used Lego Wedo 2.0 to make a monkey that swings along a rope. It’s powered by the Lego Wedo motor, with a geared arrangement to create the swinging action. The inspiration for the project comes from Yoshihito Isogawa’s 2016 Wedo Monkey. This project can be easily coded using the Lego Wedo…
Scratch is heaps of fun. Lego Wedo 2.0 is awesome. What’s even cooler is using them together to create car racing games, Wedo robot dinosaurs, and heaps more! It’s really easy to connect Lego Wedo 2.0 to Scratch, so here we’re doing a quick run-through of how to do it so you can get started…
Scratch is set up really well to integrate with a range of hardware, such as webcams, microphones, and Lego products such as Mindstorms. It also integrates with microbit, which is what Liam has been trying out recently. Microbit contains accelerometers, so can act as a motion sensor. We used this feature to create a game…
As coding platforms go, we love Scratch. One of the best things about it is that you can connect other hardware to it and build your own interactive games and robots. Liam uses microbit in his Tobbie II hexapod robot, and programs it using Microsoft’s MakeCode platform. To expand what he can do with it,…
Liam has been learning how to add timing to his code in Scratch recently. While working on his animation of a volcanic eruption, he discovered that some of his sequences were happening way too fast. Understanding timing in Scratch is super useful, because it controls when each Sprite appears, and the delay between each action…
Last week during online school, Liam’s class were learning about volcanic eruptions and the different parts of a volcano. As well as drawing a volcano and labelling the components, Liam decided to show the process of a volcanic eruption in a step-by-step video he coded using Scratch. We’ve been using Scratch on and off for…