{"id":4394,"date":"2019-04-18T17:40:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-12-23T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T22:24:15","slug":"4394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4394","title":{"rendered":"How do I connect my sensor to Scratch 3?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting a <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-force-and-acceleration-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Force and Acceleration Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-FOR<\/nobr>) to your Scratch 3 project can be done within the Scratch app.<\/p>\n<p>If you are just starting a new project, do the following:<br \/>\n1. Turn on the Go Direct Force and Acceleration sensor.<br \/>\n2. Launch the Scratch Link app, if you haven&#8217;t done so already.<br \/>\n3. In the Scratch editor window, click on the Extensions menu in the lower-left corner.<br \/>\n4. Select the Go Direct Force and Acceleration extension.<br \/>\n5. Scratch will open a new window and create a list of available devices. Select your device from the list; you can identify your device by matching its ID number.<br \/>\n6. You&#8217;re ready to go! Scratch will connect to the device and add the Force and Acceleration blocks to the block menu on the left side of the Scratch editor window.<\/p>\n<p>If you have opened a project that already has the Force and Acceleration extension loaded, you will still need to connect to the device.<br \/>\n1. Turn on the sensor.<br \/>\n2. On a PC or Mac, launch the Scratch Link app, if you have not done so already. Note: Scratch Link is not required when using the Scratch App (not web editor) on iOS, Android, and ChromeOS.<br \/>\n3. In the blocks menu on the left side of the Scratch editor window, scroll down the Force and Acceleration blocks. Click on the small orange exclamation point next to the &#8220;Force and Acceleration&#8221; subheading. This will launch the connection window.<br \/>\n4. Scratch will create a list of available devices. Select your device from the list; you can identify your device by matching its ID number.<br \/>\n6. You&#8217;re ready to go!<\/p>\n<p>RELATED TILS<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/4395\/\">I can't connect my sensor to Scratch.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/4393\/\">Scratch 3 and Go Direct Sensors FAQ and Troubleshooting<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting a to your Scratch 3 project can be done within the Scratch app. If you are just starting a new project, do the following:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7316,371,7315],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-connect-extension","tag-gdx-for","tag-scratch-programming-coding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}