Scratch in the news
Chris Chalfant 11 Mar 2009 15:01
Here's an article on Wired.com about Scratch being used along with a physical computing device called a PicoBoard. This allows you to measure things in the physical world and use that data as input to Scratch.
I thought this was really cool because lately I've been experimenting with an Arduino microcontroller and doing things like writing ruby programs to calculate and display the temperature using a thermistor.
I was thinking of dedicating an entire class session to talking about the Arduino towards the end of the semester.