{"id":301,"date":"2014-09-21T20:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2014-09-21T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:39:03","slug":"maker-faire-and-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/rpisoc\/maker-faire-and-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Faire and Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of fun and saw some of our backers there. Our interactive demos proved to be a huge hit. Several hundred kids played with Scratch and modified our game in real time. A lot of kids now learn Scratch in elementary school and they could immediately see the benefit of having joysticks and other electronic peripherals to play with in Scratch. I didn&#8217;t manage to get a chance to get a good picture with some smiles since we were so busy, but I think you&#8217;ll get the idea. If you want to learn more about Scratch, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/rpisoc\/creating-your-first-scratch-program\/\">earlier blog post<\/a>, and also MIT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">Scratch website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_20140921_142735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_20140921_142735-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20140921_142735\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_20140921_142735-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_20140921_142735.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In addition to that we also received a Maker Faire editors choice award!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/download_20140921_200822.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/download_20140921_200822-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"download_20140921_200822\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/download_20140921_200822-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/download_20140921_200822.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s your last chance to get an RPiSoC!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of fun and saw some of our backers there. Our interactive demos proved to be a huge hit. Several hundred kids played with Scratch and modified our game in real time. A lot of kids now learn Scratch in elementary school and they could immediately see the benefit of having joysticks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,8,9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}