Summer Post #4
Outputting for a Cricut Maker machine from Scratch coding
The girls have been working on creating stories in Scratch through an online summer coding class I signed them up for. So I thought for a change I’d work on helping them in coding shapes and printing out the results on our Cricut vinyl cutter.
https://nostarch.com/superscratch3
Using the Super Scratch book as a start, I decided to try teaching them the X and Y coordinates in Scratch and to use the pen tool.
After the experience with Scratch, I’m also tempted to have them work on one of the Turtle Art coding environments. They are still block-based and I think drawing is easier and there are more options for easily exploring modifying forms.
I also set up a special Seesaw class just for the girls to share what they did over the summer, and for me to share links when I need to.
They shared the links to their Scratch project on Seesaw. We then loaded the page, ran the code, and then saved the output of the images by doing a screen capture on the iPad and then importing the image into Cricut Studio.
Published by derrallg
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Originally published at http://derrallg.wordpress.com on July 2, 2020.
