keithbraafladt's Recent Projects

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fruitjams v1

(needs a PICO/Scratch board to work: http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html) This project is based on the sponge music project... and inspired by Fruit jams projects led by librarians and youth at Brooklyn Park and Ridgedale librariies in the Hennepin County Library system! - make music with fruit!

birdfade

okay this seems simple... but for some reason I cannot figure out how to fade from one background to another... any ideas?

talkin about drivingsim

This is an annotated version of the Drivin Sim. I remixed scruskin's drivingsim and added lots of comments to point out the terrific details how scruskin used the WeDo and creates the illusion of real drivin! You can see the original scratchr drivin the sim here:http://www.smm.org/ltc/node/235 Original notes: A Driving Simulator to use with the WeDo. The Distance sensor controls the speed, and the tilt sensor is used to steer left and right.

old-catfish

this is a LegoWeDo puppet project - so you'll need a WeDo and some craft materials to make your own catfish puppet

Global Alignment

This is sort of a remix... more of a tinker than mix... I wanted to see the paths of the pieces (even though its beautiful without, I kept wanting to see how they changed over time) the original (99% of this project) is paddle2sea's amazing creation "The world is a fragmented and crazy place...but every now and then the pieces come into perfect alignment...if you wait long enough :)"

skull-geometry-latest

updated with - angle increase and decrease controls - angle degree monitors - brighter marker sprite introducing ideas about measuring and geometry in animal jaw explorations

skull animation-remix

This is a started project all about exploring animal skulls (and specifically the jaws) as a content area for STEM investigations. I downloaded a project by one of the teachers at Cedar Park Elementary - a STEM school from the teacher institute. This was for Thursday's in-depth exploration of the jaws, scratch and the embedded math. I'm using a teachers project to show what we'll be adding next ( a second button for a second animal jaw)

WeDo skull

This project demonstrates the WeDo motor control

skull slideshow

This is a interactive slide show. in this project, the sprites each use the broadcast block to send a message to the stage. The green flag block is used just to set up the first stage background image - this has text to explain what the condyle is. The stage has scripts with the "when I receive" block. These are programmed to change the background image, then play a recording, wait a little bit then play a sound effect when the stage switches to a copy of the background that has a red dot on the condyle.

cat ofa nother color

this is a little project to play with the question and answer and the colors!

more me

old-turtle

This is a virtual genie project from 2006 http://www.smm.org/lt/class/Virtual-Genie-06/index.html You'll need a scratch board and your own conductive turtle... Its been updated with the removal of a some outdated code.

animate skull - 3

click the green flag to run updated information and added reset third version: updated with information second tests for animation + programming exploring project template for professional development workshop

tilty-disk

* updated with Karen and Natalies suggestion ;-) Playing with the Lego WeDo - connect a wedo with a tilt sensor - green flag it watch me watch it! There's some great WeDo projects in the 1.4 samples folder if you have a WeDo!