{"id":2301,"date":"2017-01-15T19:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2017-01-16T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:42:54","slug":"scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2017\/01\/15\/scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lis brought home an iRobot Create 2 (a Roomba without some of the vacuum bits) to see if we could figure out how to control it with Scratch, a kids&#8217; programming environment created by MIT. The answer is: yes, we could figure out out; no, it&#8217;s probably not suitable for her employer&#8217;s audience.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have the beginnings of a control program to navigate a simple maze. Unfortunately the Scratch iRobot commands are\u00a0frustratingly unreliable for even this simple task.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/01\/DL5_1230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2302\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/01\/DL5_1230-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/01\/DL5_1230-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/01\/DL5_1230-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/01\/DL5_1230-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/01\/DL5_1230-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lis brought home an iRobot Create 2 (a Roomba without some of the vacuum bits) to see if we could figure out how to control it with Scratch, a kids&#8217; programming environment created by MIT. The answer is: yes, we could figure out out; no, it&#8217;s probably not suitable for her employer&#8217;s audience. Here we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2017\/01\/15\/scratch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scratch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}