Lightnin's Recent Projects

For calculating exponents

Very quick and dirty - Can someone remix this to do the job with less code?

How we made our virtual tree...

This is a project explaining how ritac and I made our "Virtual Tree" project. (You need a Pico Board to make it work.) http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/RitaC/706116 Credit to Ritac - who is great to work with!

Virtual-legos

mad-lib-aoke

It's like Karaoke and Mad Libs smushed together. If you want to make your own, you can use Audacity, free sound editing software, to make quiet spaces in your song. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

The Logistic Equation

Period Doubling route to Chaos. This is a simple mathematical equation to model population that displays complex (and very gnarly) behavior. Good values of rateofGrowth to demonstrate sensitive dependence: Time step 5, turn off erase previous and run the following values: 3.8000000 3.8000001 3.8000002 3.8000003 etc. if you want. Good values to demonstrate attractors: point: 2.9 periodic:3.2 Strange: 3.9 Credit to Steve Baedke and Lynn Fichter for the idea.

5 Random Facts About Me! Meme

Do it! Remix please! Press space. I'll do one too! (Credit to MaskedChan for the great project idea.)

Variable costumes

This is a quick demo to show a way of displaying variable values with sprites and costumes.

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Period Doubling route to Chaos. This is a simple mathematical equation to model population that displays complex behavior. It's a good demonstration of point, periodic, and strange attractors. Unfortunately you have to download it to change the rate of growth (r) value in the code, so it is pretty boring on the web. Good values of rateofGrowth to demonstrate sensitive dependence: Time step 5, turn off erase previous and run the following values: 3.8000000 3.8000001 3.8000002 3.8000003 etc. if you want. Good values to demonstrate attractors: point: 2.9 periodic:3.2 Strange: 3.9

Computer Bug s3.2

Based on Paddle2See's project, but I added my own bug. The cricket is not thriving like I'd like him to yet...this is an interim release. Artificial life is tough, but cool! From original: This is an experiment in Artificial Life...feed the bugs by clicking the mouse on the stage. This version has reproducing bugs...it is somewhat laggy though, and I had to scrap the footprints. The Bug ====== + Eats green "Plants" when it is hungry (low on energy) + Shows it's energy state by the green beads on it's back...more beads, higher energy + Finds plants with its antenae + Remembers and returns to the last place it ate food, if it doesn't find something to eat within 20 steps. + Burps when it is full and will avoid food until it is hungry again (at half energy level) + Turns grey and stops when it dies + Can be picked up by you, using the mouse + Will have a baby, if it has at least half energy and it is fully grown The Plants ======== + Like to grow next to existing plants but will also spawn new plant colonies + Can be produced by you by clicking on the stage. Hold down the mouse button for a continuous fall of leaves. Possible Improvements: ================= + Evolution with genetic variation and Natural Selection. + Sleep? Predators? Credits: ====== Sounds from www.soundsnap.com with editing done in Audacity

RogersVSkinner

Rogers Vs. Skinner Smackdown! Relive the battle for theoretical supremacy between the 2nd and 3rd forces in the world of psychology! See if the great Humanist can maintain his authenticity in the face of the withering reductionism of the Pigeon-Master. Controls: Rogers (left): jump - W move left - A move right - D punch - C hide - S Skinner(right): jump - up arrow move left - left arrow move right - right arrow punch - M hide - down arrow. This is a remix of Penguin1556's great Hillary vs Obama game.

Sing Splatter

To use Sing Splatter you need to download it, load it into Scratch, and have a working microphone attached to your computer. Click as you sing to make splats the size of your song. Sing Splatter is based on Make Some Splats!, a great project by itsEMILagain. I just added the ability to sing the size of the splats.

Hungry Bat

You are a very hungry bat! Make a sound to dive down and eat the bug. Note: You need to download this project, load it up in Scratch, and have a working microphone for it to work. It won't work on the Scratch website because the Java Player can't listen to your microphone. Uses ideas and code from sierra2600's great Alpha Delta Soundgraph Projects.

evaporation

This project was inspired by and uses some images from FFred's great Water is Cool project. For more info on evaporation check out the wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation

squiggly drawer

Draws some squiggly lines of random width but attenuated. Don't know if I like it as much as the last one, but it's fun to play with. It would be really cool if you could make comments pop up when the user hovers over certain blocks, especailly control structure ones. For example, my [if pensize > 15 block] could pop up a little thought bubble when hovered over that says "I want to let the pensize fluctuate, but put some pressure on it to stay in the general area of 15."