Learn Scratch coding with pictoblox

Learn how to download, install, and sign up for Pictoblox, explore blocks, sprites, backdrops, and extensions, including artificial intelligence features, and share projects via a link.

Students will learn to code Toby to move left to right in Scratch with drag-and-drop blocks, using forever loops, edge bounce, and costumed walking animations.

Learn how to use arithmetic operators in Pictoblox Scratch by prompting for two numbers, performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, storing the result in a variable, and displaying the outcome.

Learn how to draw structures in Scratch using the Pictoblox pen extension by setting a site variable, repeating steps, and using division to scale shapes like squares and circles.

Create a Scratch maze game by setting a 50% sprite, moving with arrows, resetting on black, and finishing at red with a sound.

Explore artificial intelligence and machine learning basics, including weak (narrow) AI, general AI, and super AI, and learn about supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning with examples.

Learn how face detection works, compare knowledge-based rules to feature-based landmark methods, and apply real-time detection, bounding boxes, and applications like mobile unlock and surveillance.

Learn how to use the artificial intelligence extension to perform handwritten text recognition in a Scratch-like project, triggering actions like gifting boxes to John or Hazel based on OCR results.

Build a speech recognition project in Scratch using artificial intelligence and text-to-speech extensions, teaching a simple voice command system that plays Mario or Spider-Man songs and handles unrecognized commands.

Explore object detection and recognition in Scratch with pictoblox, using bounding boxes, feature extraction, and an AI extension to identify objects in images.

Explore an artificial intelligence based drawing app that uses fingertip detection and hand movements to drive a pencil sprite, drawing with the pen extension and camera input.

Explore machine learning as a subset of artificial intelligence, learn to build an image-based model with input, train, export, and deploy it in pictoblox Scratch projects.

Explore pose detection with machine learning in pictoblox, recording two poses, training a model, exporting it, and using it in scratch-like blocks with events and conditionals.