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Getting ready for Scratch@MIT

http://blog.s4a.cat/2014/07/30/getting-ready-for-scratch-at-mit.html

Getting ready for Scratch@MIT. Well be presenting Snap4Arduino. This year, so weve been pushing hard to fix some annoying issues before going on holiday. First of all, we have to thank Ernesto Laval. For his great contribution to the project, as hes responsible for Snap4Arduino now fully working on MacOSX! Additionally, weve fixed the following bugs and features:. Add dialog informing that a board has been connected. Clicking twice on a connect block renders connecting impossible.

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It's getting warm in Barcelona...

http://blog.s4a.cat/2014/04/11/getting-warm-in-Barcelona.html

It's getting warm in Barcelona. So lets make an S4A program to fix that! In this demo, a real fan is switched on by means of a relay when the temperature goes over 19 C. There is also a virtual fan and a virtual temperature sensor, so you can play with both controllers and actuators in the real world and the virtual one. Watch the video to see it in action:. You can get the code from here:. For more information on S4A, visit s4a.cat. For more information on our research team at Citlab.

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Yet another Snap4Arduino release

http://blog.s4a.cat/2015/05/14/Yet-another-Snap4Arduino-release.html

Yet another Snap4Arduino release. This release, Snap4Arduino. 104 beta, addresses an issue. Reported by Valentina Chinnici. Which prevented users from accessing the Sounds, Costumes and Background libraries. For more information on S4A, visit s4a.cat. For more information on our research team at Citlab. Visit edutec.citilab.eu.

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Snap4Arduino 1.0 alpha released

http://blog.s4a.cat/2014/07/01/snap4arduino-1.0-alpha-released.html

Snap4Arduino 1.0 alpha released. It took a little bit longer than expected, but weve finally released the first alpha version of Snap4Arduino. There have been many changes and improvements since the last pre-alpha version, such as:. Snap4Arduino is now a desktop application, so you dont need a browser anymore! This also means there is no intermediate server dealing with HTTP and WebSocket requests, which translates into a much ( much! A bunch of bugs have been tracked down and fixed too. As always, there...

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Bluetooth Car in Snap4Arduino

http://blog.s4a.cat/2014/10/01/bluetooth-car-in-Snap4Arduino.html

Bluetooth Car in Snap4Arduino. This weekend weve been invited to the Maiker Faire Rome. To give a workshop on Snap4Arduino. In which we wanted to get the kids to play with robotic cars (both ours and their MilkBots. Cables are really a nuissance when it comes to things with wheels, so weve been exploring how to connect the robots to some bluetooth modules we had laying around from an old project. It wasnt hard to get it working, and were really amazed how far the bluetooth signal reaches!

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Snap4Arduino 1.0.3 beta

http://blog.s4a.cat/2015/05/13/Snap4Arduino-1.0.3-beta.html

Snap4Arduino 1.0.3 beta. We have just released a new Snap4Arduino. Version that features a single improvement: now pin configurations happen automagically. You dont need to set up pins before using them anymore, Snap4Arduino. Will check whether the pin you asked for is set to the correct mode, and fix the problem otherwise. Dont worry about older projects being loadable, the [set pin () to mode ()]. We would like to thank Bruno Schwander. For more information on S4A, visit s4a.cat.

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Too much stuff for a single post

http://blog.s4a.cat/2014/11/18/too-much-stuff-for-a-post.html

Too much stuff for a single post. We havent written in a long while, but thats because were actually too busy working on several different projects and have literally no time left for writing. To recap, during these months weve:. With lots of bugfixes, new features and translations. As always, Ernesto Laval. Has been a priceless collaborator! About to release S4A. Is working on this awesome 3D generative modelling project with Jens Mönig. And its material print. Besides all this, weve been building an ac...

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A Laser lighthouse guiding a ship

http://blog.s4a.cat/2014/06/26/laser-lighthouse-guiding-ship.html

A Laser lighthouse guiding a ship. Were still making preparations to release the new Snap4Arduino. Version, which has been delayed mainly because weve been busy finishing up the preparations for this years TecnoEstiu. In the last post we showed a proof of concept in which two Arduinos communicated via Morse by means of a laser and a photoresistor. And heres the final result: six emitter-receiver assembled pairs. All supports have been designed by Joan. And 3D-printed here at Citilab.

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Snap4Arduino Arduino Sketch Generation

http://blog.s4a.cat/2015/06/09/Snap4Arduino-Arduino-sketch-generation.html

Snap4Arduino Arduino Sketch Generation. However, several people have been asking for this for a long time, and although we praise dynamism we do understand the reasons behind this. So, lo and behold, you can now translate simple scripts into Arduino sketches. To get this working, go to the File menu and select. New Arduino translatable project. This will open a new project in the Arduino translation mode. Export as Arduino sketch. Now youve got a. File ready to compile and push to your board.

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Seniors can code too!

http://blog.s4a.cat/2015/04/22/Seniors-can-code-too.html

Seniors can code too! This year, at the Citilab. We have committed to get all of our interest areas and work groups closer, and just this week we have started bringing together two projects: Edutec. The ultimate goal of the Edutec. In our first presentation, we showed the seniors all of our tools and projects, and had them program a simple animation in Scratch. Which they picked up immediately. The workshop had just started when they began pouring ideas of what they would use this new knowledge for.