[TriEmbed] ?==?utf-8?q? MIT Scratch on an ESP32?

[Jon Wolfe]

Oh yes, I forgot they have updated it. Originally it was done in Squeak, and it's been either transpiled or ported to Javascript/node.js



On Saturday, November 27, 2021 15:28 EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
 But Mike and I did a search this morning and it seemed to be the Scratch
we found is implemented with node.js?

-Pete

On 11/27/21 15:27, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
> The programming paradigm of Scratch in which changes to the code are
> immediately reflected in program execution is extremely attractive for
> the community board project. On the fly updating of FPGA bitstreams
> may be a challenge but Mike North and I think it's doable. We're
> currently married to Scratch because it is the lingua franca of little
> kids.
>
> Pete
>
> On 11/27/21 15:23, Jon Wolfe wrote:
>> Its written in Squeak, which is a derivative language of SmallTalk.
>>
>> What are the goals, to "Run" something developed in Scratch? Does it
>> have to be Scratch specifically, or any similar visual programming
>> system? Does it need to be able to run standalone?
>>
>> The "Scractch For Arduino" project used a modified version of scratch
>> with an Arduino as a "peripheral" that could be treated like a sensor
>> or actuator from Scratch programs, but everything still ran on the PC
>> in Scratch.
>>
>> If you want something that is "Scratch-like" but that can generate
>> code that can run standalone on the embedded side, checkout Blockly,
>> or one of the projects based on that. There is a "Blockly rduino"
>> project that takes blockly programs and generates source. I wrote a
>> tool several years ago that uses a [very old] version of blockly and
>> generates Adruino Code targeting Pololu's 3Pi Robot, which is based
>> on an Arduino Leonardo. https://anibit.com/webtools/3pi/
>>
>> Blockly is web/javascript based, but you can run it offline using one
>> of the many ways to host offline content, I made a Windows Desktop
>> version of my tool that can directly program an attached arduino,
>> using an embedded instance of Firefox and corrdination between the
>> Javscript and the native decktop code to handle comms with the
>> Arduino software.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, November 27, 2021 08:28 EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed
>> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>>> What do you all think of the feasibility of the MIT Scratch system
>>> being
>>> ported to a fat ESP32? By fat I mean one with outboard memory. I am
>>> clueless about the Scratch implementation. Is it written in Python by
>>> chance?
>>>
>>> -Pete (on behalf of the community project working group)
>>>
>>>
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