Scratchgo

The Remote Sensors Protocol can be used to connect golang to Scratch.

Install Go lang

Refer to golang.org

Install scratchgo

go get github.com/135yshr/scratchgo

Enable Remote Sensor Connections

In your Scratch project, right click on one of the sensor tiles and click "enable remote sensor connections".

New Functions

Scratchub

scratchub is a class that was to be manipulated from Scratch by connecting multiple external devices. (such as Sphero and Hue)

Sample client program

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"scratchgo"
)

func main() {
	conn, err := scratchgo.NewDefaultConnect()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		os.Exit(1)
	}
	defer conn.Close()

	// A global variable is changed
	err := conn.SensorUpdate("intX", "1")
	err = conn.SensorUpdate("intY", "1")

	// A broadcast is sent
	err = conn.BroadCast("update_pos")

	// receive the updated value
	// sensor-update - map[key:value]
	// broadcast - map["command":message]
	msg, err := conn.Recv()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(*msg) // {sensor-update map[scratch_value:1]}
}

Revistion History

release 1.1

• Fixed a bug of the sample program

release 1.0

• Fixed a problem that can not be sent two or more of the parameters.

beta 2.0

• added a new function scratchub