Maritime archaeology: VIDEO of Rover Robot with Lego WeDo2 programming blocks here - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1121866180577259520 - in action * * * Photo of Rover Robot NEWLY with SCRATCH 3.0 programming language here * * * seeking to connect with Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser (based in Nevada City / Berkeley) to explore recording my first Scottish small pipes bagpiping CD in 2020 "Honey in the Bag" as a duet > he's inspiring and interesting musically (and as a Scot as well)

Hi M,

Thanks for your nice email, and hope you get your voice back soon. (I think you told me about AirBorne which seems to be an advance on strategies for the common cold - but only in certain bolstering immune system cold-situations, and I think I also get zinc/similar mineral in my daily multi-vitamin). And there seem to be relatively few colds around out west here, but I also don't circulate with kids very much these days, which could change if I have my own at some point:)

As I update the Easter Egg of my Apple MacBook computer by transferring data from a recent Apple Time Machine backup, it looks like I'm getting FileVault as the new OS 10.13 is installed. Probably a good thing, since FV is getting to be mature software. Have to make a lot of inferences about what's going on with software, since one can't be sure - seems like any information technology can be hacked by other information technology as information ... in this new world ... typing on my old MacBook Pro computer, even as my MacBook Air gets my files from before ... could take a couple of hours.  

Looking forward to learning Scratch 3.0 with my Lego WeDo2 robotics newly now. Have to think through investing in Lego Mindstorms EV3 eventually ... now that I'll be able to use Scratch 3.0 with it too. :)

Wikidata Libraries' Affinity Group ... and re Harvard / Stanford / Cornell and World University and School (in 7 k languages) ... 

Interesting Stanford networking recently ... with some further generative qualities ... 

Hoping you get your voice back soon, and get past your cold soon! :)

L, Scott

How was your week? And are you heading out to amble with friends through spring Pittsburgh momentarily? :) 

Unitarian Universalist-oriented, and singing oriented as well, who knows ... great, too :)? As you may have been reading in emails, World Univ & Sch seeks to create online real real time virtual choirs (of many stripes) ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Choir ... and Bruce Olstad choir director at the UUCPA could be a great musical director for this online ... and perhaps to connect with other UU churches in the SF Bay Area even (e.g. in Livermore :) so they could have the gift of music-making and singing as well. 

Life gets kind of diffuse in California, USA, post-modernity and the information age re family creation :) But Stanford (as well as traveling to Harbin) center things for me a bit ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/oasis.html :)

Hi M (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics :), 

Then back to the Scratch programming interface BLOCKS, and clicked green flag and it worked - so I can run a & b from either interface. 

Can now make robots with new programming language all thanks to OS 10.13 newly on my laptop computer. 

Have thought how it would be interesting to travel around to many countries re World Univ & Sch, and get the smallest little excellent robot in every country I visit ... have also thought it would be great to bring a new robot I made out of Lego to every talk / country ... 

L, Scott

Scratch 3.0 with Lego Robotics WeDo 2.0 NEWLY (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics :), connected newly the Scratch 3.0 software in a web browser tab wirelessly to the Lego WeDo2 a) SmartHub (containing batteries and a chip), and b) motor, then added 3 Scratch blocks https://youtu.be/2eNEbx4cO8o 

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1121866180577259520

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