[TriEmbed] MIT Scratch on an ESP32?

[Michael Monaghan]

Low.js is an ESP implementation of Node.js.  May be worth looking into.  I
have some ESP32 with 16M flash and 16M psram.

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 3:34 PM Jon Wolfe via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org>
wrote:

> 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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