Peter Mathijssen

Peter Mathijssen

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🤓 I am a block-a-holic https://petermathijssen.nl

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A MicroBlocks user recently got some GC9A01 round TFT displays and managed to update the MicroBlocks External Display library to add support for it. Obviously, a clock is the Hello World of a round display so that’s what he has done with it.

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A PU robot wandering around a library that was named Building of the Year 2019. The children loved the explore option. I had a lot of really young children following it around.

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The latest pilot release of MicroBlocks adds support for the Elecfreaks Nezha for ESP32 board. Remember that it is still a pilot release.

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The latest pilot release of MicroBlocks has initial support for Innova's new ESP32 STEAMaker S3 board (SD, userLED, button A). A lot of work to do.

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Josep from the MicroBlocks team is working on a PU Robot library for MicroBlocks. Here a little demo of a dancing PU robot responding to the volume of a song.

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We like to tell everyone about a very cool feature added by Sam McHardy, block search. You can then enter a word that would appear on the block. It searches for the word both in the built-in block palette and in all of the built-in libraries. This is a super useful feature. Thanks, Sam!

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This was an event called "Computer Science Showcase" in Boston. The activity was called "Open the Puzzle Box". Kids had to answer riddles and solve coding problems. The final riddle answer was sent to a micro:bit inside the treasure box. If correct, the box would open and NeoPixels would flash.

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Sur-Face - combining Snap's 3D Beetle extension with MediaComp: Print a photo in 16 isometric layers of brightness levels, a topographic model of the pixel values - a tangible bar chart. When you first hold it in your hands it looks and feels like drunk LEGO, until you turn it into the light...