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Blockly with WS2812s, ColorPal, S3, Ping))) Ultrasonic sensor (three videos)

Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
edited 2017-03-24 20:49 in Learn with BlocklyProp
I think the WS2812s are a pretty good demonstration of Blockly capabilities. This uses JonnyMac's driver run through Spin2CPP, then put into Blockly. A conglomeration of testing stuff to see that everything works right.







Ken Gracey

Comments

  • David BetzDavid Betz Posts: 14,516
    Very cool!
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    Very Nice Ken! Should get some inspiration going.
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    There's a lot here. Floating point isn't here, but most anything a noob programmer as myself would hope to find is here. I'm just looking forward to the integration of David's PropLoader so we can program wirelessly from Blockly.

    Ken Gracey
  • KeithEKeithE Posts: 957
    That Parallax FLiP module #32123 looks convenient.
  • twm47099twm47099 Posts: 867
    edited 2017-03-25 00:13
    Ken,
    Very nice. I especially like how colors for the ws2812 are selected using a pallet.

    I also just checked and found that Switch/case and setting groups of pins states (including using binary numbers) have been added. Blocklyprop is becoming quite powerful (and fun).

    One like-to-have (although it may not be feasible) is in the blockly Community Projects pages, it would be useful to order the projects by date and user (or search on user). That way when we see a video like the ones above, it would be easier to locate the project to see the code.

    As the user base grows, there are many interesting sounding, but empty projects and that will increase, making searching the Community Projects frustrating.
    Tom
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    Tom, are you referring to the "Projects" search tool output on Learn?
  • twm47099twm47099 Posts: 867
    Ken,
    No, when you log into Blockly and select community projects. Trying to find recent projects is difficult. You can order the projects by board or project name, but there is no date column and user doesn't have an ordering selection.

    Tom
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    Aha, yes. That search tool is 100% drain bread and we need to fix it up the right way. It's not high on the priority list at this moment but will soon become very important to fix.

    We have so many systems, databases, and processes around us. It's never easy :)

    Ken Gracey
  • StefanL38StefanL38 Posts: 2,292
    cool demos!

    How about posting the blocklyProp-code?

    best regards

    Stefan
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    Scroll down on this page http://learn.parallax.com/tutorials/language/blocklyprop
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Totally awesome demo's Ken, it sure looks like your having fun developing Blockly code.
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