Electronic Playground With Arduino and Scratch 2

Marcelo Ravai just published a wonderful Instructables and a hackster.io article on creating physical computing projects using s2aio and Scratch. He demonstrates how to control LEDs, switches, a passive infrared (PIR) sensor, servos, buzzers, ultrasonic distance sensors, temperature sensors, servo motors, temperature sensors and light sensors.

The article provides links to the Scratch code for all of the projects. In addition, Marcello provides detailed wiring instructions, making it easy to quickly get up and running.

Check it out for some great summer fun!

Updates Available for pymata-aio, s2aio and FirmataPlus

Pymata-aio version 2.14 and s2aio version 2.9 are now available on Pypi.

To upgrade s2aio to the latest version, in a command window type:

pip install s2aio --upgrade

This should update both s2aio and pymata_aio.

To upgrade pymata-aio, in a command window type:

pip install pymata-aio --upgrade

FirmataPlus and its variants have been updated and are baselined against StandardFirmata 2.5.3.

These libraries now support both PyMata and pymata-aio. You can download the zip file here and installation instructions can be found here.

s2aio

Version 1.8 Just Released

This release corrects a problem encountered when using the SONAR feature.

s2aio
Updated To Version 7

French block translations have been updated for both Scratch and Snap!.

A bug was fixed for Snap!

Digital input data was not being reported correctly when using Snap!.