I'm planning to teach few kids at school about programming and robots. I want to use scratch, since it's a graphical interface to program Ardunio, but they are using Chromebooks. Is it possible to do this? I've looked at S4A, but they don't support Chromebook yet.

Anyone know of or have any suggestions? I think this type of use with Scratch, Arduino and Chromebook will be popular since most schools in the US, at least, have big use.

Thanks

takeokimura wrote:

I'm planning to teach few kids at school about programming and robots. I want to use scratch, since it's a graphical interface to program Ardunio, but they are using Chromebooks. Is it possible to do this? I've looked at S4A, but they don't support Chromebook yet.

Anyone know of or have any suggestions? I think this type of use with Scratch, Arduino and Chromebook will be popular since most schools in the US, at least, have big use.

Thanks

Nope, Scratch only supports these:

MaKey MaKey
LEGO WeDo Kit
PicoBoard (also known as ScratchBoard)
Kinect2Scratch, using Microsoft Kinect
GoPiGo for Raspberry Pi

No, because Chromebooks aren't supposed to be used for these types of things. Chromebooks are designed to be low cost laptops that surf the web and not for technical activities. If you really want to do these things, get low cost Windows laptops.
If you use a Windows or a Mac (which I don't recommend on a budget), you could do this. I'm not sure about Linux (not ChromeOS) but they might be able to use extensions.
Honestly, if that's where the US schools are going, then they're just going for web based programming. Simple.

thanks guys! At least with windows, we can do it! I really like the Scratch GUI approach and Arduino combo. Fast programming and easy to download to see a physical car or robot move.

Thanks again. But if future development or progress is made for Scratch, Arduino, and Chromebook, it'll be really interesting!

takeokimura wrote:

I'm planning to teach few kids at school about programming and robots. I want to use scratch, since it's a graphical interface to program Ardunio, but they are using Chromebooks. Is it possible to do this? I've looked at S4A, but they don't support Chromebook yet.

Anyone know of or have any suggestions? I think this type of use with Scratch, Arduino and Chromebook will be popular since most schools in the US, at least, have big use.

Thanks

Yes, they don't support Chromebook but there is a solution (Sorry if I'm late to this).
A suggestion on what you could do is have a supported laptop running S4A and get your class to work on different parts of perhaps a robot or something that could work with an arduino, for example though it's a solo project I am working on an animatronic head of a character I made, she'll be programmed to do performances and blink / open mouth / look around on command.
Still on the robot thing, perhaps you could have groups working on different parts of a face since it's much easier than limbs, torso and a face all at once? Like one group for the frame / character / design? One for the eyes, one for the jaw, etc.
It'd be a group collaboration and something to show off to other classes, hope this helped!
Literal instant edit: WOW I AM LATE!! But it is a project if you're still looking into this.

ContaimentLunan45 wrote:

takeokimura wrote:

I'm planning to teach few kids at school about programming and robots. I want to use scratch, since it's a graphical interface to program Ardunio, but they are using Chromebooks. Is it possible to do this? I've looked at S4A, but they don't support Chromebook yet.

Anyone know of or have any suggestions? I think this type of use with Scratch, Arduino and Chromebook will be popular since most schools in the US, at least, have big use.

Thanks

Yes, they don't support Chromebook but there is a solution (Sorry if I'm late to this).
A suggestion on what you could do is have a supported laptop running S4A and get your class to work on different parts of perhaps a robot or something that could work with an arduino, for example though it's a solo project I am working on an animatronic head of a character I made, she'll be programmed to do performances and blink / open mouth / look around on command.
Still on the robot thing, perhaps you could have groups working on different parts of a face since it's much easier than limbs, torso and a face all at once? Like one group for the frame / character / design? One for the eyes, one for the jaw, etc.
It'd be a group collaboration and something to show off to other classes, hope this helped!
Literal instant edit: WOW I AM LATE!! But it is a project if you're still looking into this.

Hi! Thank you for offering your help, but this thread is pretty old - I don't think it's relevant anymore. When you respond to a topic, please make sure it's recent and the original poster still needs an answer. Thanks!