Showing posts with label Scratch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scratch. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2016

Using Scratch to control Raspberry Pi GPIO

In the previous post, I have built my first circuit and able to control the LED light using the gpio command:
http://pandaeatsbamboo.blogspot.hk/2016/07/the-hello-world-circuit-with-raspberry.html

Similar control can be done via Scratch, this is the official tutorial:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-new-version-of-scratch-for-raspberry-pi-now-with-added-gpio/

This is a super simple Scratch script to illustrate this:


In this simple script, when you click the flag icon, it will set the gpio pin 17 (BCM) to 1 to switch on the LED.  When you press the spacebar on your keyboard, it will set the gpio pin 17 to 0 to switch off the LED.  With this you can incorporate the GPIO control into your own scratch script.  Give it a try!