Baking Scratch into a Pi

Grade:

7

Teacher:

Kateri Raglow

I used a Raspberry Pi (chip on a board) and the RetroPie operating system as building blocks to create a handheld game system that could play the games I programmed on Scratch. The challenges I overcame included hacking into RetroPie to add x11 into the emulation station so that the Raspberry Pi could correctly render the Scratch game images. I also had to modify my Scratch games to have button inputs readable by the Pi, rather than the mouse and keyboard inputs from a computer game. At the end of this, I felt like a true coding ninja.

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