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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Lego Mindstorms&#xA;&#xA;We have sone Lego Mindstorms at Code Club, which has remained largely unused until now.  Partly due to lack of time and or expertise to figure it out.   &#xA;&#xA;As I am helping at a digital leaders club,  we have been trying to use the lego owned by the school,  as with the Lego Mindstorms both the NXT and RCX bricks are no longer supported.&#xA;&#xA;Lego&#xA;&#xA;Step in the Brick Pi,  obtained from the same school as the Lego (not the school I am running this club at).    Despite the Lego sitting in a cupboard for a few years, it still boots up and I can actually run a motor fine.   So a good starting point.&#xA;&#xA;On Thursday, I will be taking this in to the digital leaders club, so that we can hopefully experiment with it. &#xA;&#xA;This is the best I can do at the moment,  hopefully installing scratch Link will allow Scratch 3 to talk to the existing rxc or the nxt block  I am using, but that belongs to code club. &#xA;&#xA;Should give us some scope to undertake more Lego Mindstorms at the library. &#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#CodeClub,#LegoMindstorms,#BrickPi,#Scratch,#Engineering,#Coding,&#xA;LookingForEmployment&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>We have sone Lego Mindstorms at <a href="https://codeclub.org/en/" rel="nofollow">Code Club</a>, which has remained largely unused until now.  Partly due to lack of time and or expertise to figure it out.</p>

<p>As I am helping at a digital leaders club,  we have been trying to use the lego owned by the school,  as with the Lego Mindstorms both the NXT and RCX bricks are no longer supported.</p>

<p><img src="https://git.qoto.org/zleap/documents/-/raw/master/stemgroup/brickpi1.JPG" alt="Lego"></p>

<p>Step in the <a href="https://www.dexterindustries.com/brickpi/" rel="nofollow">Brick Pi</a>,  obtained from the same school as the Lego (not the school I am running this club at).    Despite the Lego sitting in a cupboard for a few years, it still boots up and I can actually run a motor fine.   So a good starting point.</p>

<p>On Thursday, I will be taking this in to the digital leaders club, so that we can hopefully experiment with it.</p>

<p>This is the best I can do at the moment,  hopefully installing scratch Link will allow Scratch 3 to talk to the existing rxc or the nxt block  I am using, but that belongs to code club.</p>

<p>Should give us some scope to undertake more Lego Mindstorms at the library.</p>

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