Recent Projects in Tool Kits

Building Blocks

Drag, build, & climb your own creation! Arrow keys to move the stick figure.

Architecture

Drag the objects in the upper left corner with the mouse und create your own village, street or forest! Press the left or right arrow key to get more objects! Clear all by clicking on the red button!

Highway Engineer

Make you own road layouts and run your very-small car around them! Share your road designs with others: 1. Download this project 2. Design your own layout 3. Share to the website as a remix! (be sure to UNCHECK the Compress Images and Sounds box or you get some buffer error). Unlike most road running projects on Scratch, this is NOT a color-sensing line-follower. Rather, the car is controlled by each road section as it passes over it. This has some advantages such as smoother motion, roads that can cross, roads that can be invisible and so on. Press the "h" key for help. Thanks to Logan996 for asking to me to make a roller coaster game. That's what this started out as, but it seemed more like a slot-car set to me. Thanks also to Deatheater for allowing me to include a Deather-designed layout in the standard layouts for this game and also for the great river valley background!

Building Blocks

This is pretty much a rip-off of Jay's Gravity Blocks, but this variation has multiple block shapes. Click on a block to grab it and click again to release it. Hold Space to shuffle and knock over the blocks. If you notice any glitches, please comment about it. Enjoy!

Logic V0_8a

Logic Simulator V0.8a (Requires Scratch 1.2 or later.) Press Green flag and the move the elements around to interconnect the logic gates (like Scratch itself). Current version has AND,OR,XOR,NOT and NAND gates, two types of switches to provide inputs, 2 connectors and an LED. If switch is clicked, it will change from 1 (Red) to 0 (Blue). If gates are clicked they will change their input connection wiring direction (Try it to see what I mean). Connectors and the switches also change on clicking. Use the stamp tool to make duplicates of any gates needed. If heart stops beating - re-click on the Green flag to restart the program. Any ideas or feedback gratefully received.

Logic Kit

Yet another Logic Gate Kit to let you play with binary gates like those used in computer construction. The real innovation here is the use of flexible "wire" elements that simplify hooking up the gates. I've modeled a binary adder circuit for you to play with. Click on the rectangular switches to turn them on or off. All elements are draggable so you can make other circuits. It's easiest to work with in presentation mode. The signal color is red which is transmitted from the inputs (sensors) of each gate to the output according to the usual truth tables. Each wire consists of two sprites that communicate using the new Scratch 1.2 features. The wires are NOT bi-directional, make sure the green (sensor) end is placed on the signal you want to transmit. Also be careful that sensors from different elements don't shadow each other; try not to stack them on top of each other. If you want to change the direction an element is pointing, hold the mouse over it and use the arrow keys. Let me know of any suggestions or errors and, as always, comments are welcome. Thanks to SimpleScratch for his inspiration.

Clockwork Kit

A color-driven clockwork kit! All the things on the screen can be moved, resized and rotated. The Action colors (yellow and red) drive the kit elements. Click on an object to select it. Once selected, it will follow the mouse until you click again. While selected, the following keys do things: c-Next costume (Spinners, Sliders and Motors have different costumes that can be used) Left/Right Arrows - Change angle Up/Down Arrows - Change size 1/2 - Increase/Decrease Spinner speed for all spinners (no selection required) Download for best performance. Have Fun!

Gravity Blocks

Kind of like blocks in the real world but more bouncy -- and when you scream at them they fall down. INSTRUCTIONS Click a block once to get it to follow the mouse, click again to get it to drop Press space bar to shake blocks up HOW I MADE THIS This project uses gravity. The building blocks fall down until they are touching the hot-pink color. They fall faster and faster once you let them go. If they hit hard enough, they make a sound. MORE IDEAS I would like to change the blocks into everyday real objects of some sort....then see what else comes to my mind.

Digital Logic Toolkit

INSTRUCTIONS Drag out and connect your parts any way you want. Click the rotate button to turn parts. PARTS Red and blue power squares. Long wire and short wire with yellow inputs. And gate and Or gate with yellow inputs. Triangular inverter with yellow input. LEARN MORE http://jjackson.eng.ua.edu/courses/ece380/lectures/ FUTURE DIRECTIONS What other toolkits could be built in Scratch?