Happy Scratch Day 2015!

A quick blip of a blog to say Happy Scratch Day! Help! I’m trapped in a white box. Fetch the magic wand tool! We’re huge fans of Scratch here at the Foundation. It was designed to teach young people how to program but it’s a great learning tool at any age: you can build your first program in minutes and pick up fundamental concepts very quickly. Whilst having fun. Sneaky! Raspberry Pi Scratch workshop. Yes, that is Mitch Resnick at the back! If you’ve never tried Scratch before then today is the day to boot up your Pi and have a play. If you are Pi-less then you can use it online, but you’ll be missing out on the best bit of all: physical computing with Scratch. It’s probably the easiest way to hook up sensors, LEDs, buttons and motors to the Pi, and resources such as our reaction game and Santa detector are great intro projects for the weekend. Connect buttons, sensors, cameras, LEDS, goblin sticks and other gubbins to your Pi The Foundation has supported Scratch since our early days and we’ve put a lot of resources into making Scratch on the Pi better, faster and funner. We’re just putting the finishing touches to some new stuff that we think you’ll find really exciting (I’m excited anyway :)) so watch this space. We’ll have some news this summer. We’ll also be at the Scratch 2015 conference in Amsterdam in August so if you are there come and talk to us. Raspberry Pi Scratch workshop. A young man shows adults why flying hippos are essential in LED traffic light projects. I’ll finish now. My sesame seed bagel has just popped up (and you know how easily they burn) and I’m stopping you from making things. This weekend, give the repeats of Thundercats a miss and go and have a play with Scratch instead—it’s a beautiful thing. The post Happy Scratch Day 2015! appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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