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PLAY WITH SCRATCH
Besides programming on the Arduino IDE or Thonny IDE, we can also use graphical programming.
Here we recommend programming with Scratch, but the official Scratch is currently only compatible with Raspberry
Pi, so we have partnered with a company, STEMPedia, who has developed a Scratch 3 based graphical programming
software for many boards - PictoBlox.
It keeps the basic functions of Scratch 3, but also adds control boards, such as Arduino Uno, Mega, Nano, ESP32,
Microbit and STEAMPedia homemade main boards, which can use external sensors, robots to control the sprites on
the stage, with strong hardware interaction capabilities.
In addition, it has AI and machine learning, even if you do not have much programming foundation, you can learn and
use these popular and high-tech.
Just drag and drop the Scratch coding blocks and make cool games, animations, interactive projects, and even control
robots the way you want!
Now let’s start the journey of discovery!
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