{"id":9922,"date":"2020-11-04T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2020-11-17T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:18:06","slug":"why-cant-i-get-my-go-direct-force-and-acceleration-sensor-to-connect-to-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/9922","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t I get my Go Direct Force and Acceleration sensor to connect to Scratch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You need to install Scratch Link to allow other hardware (including our <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-force-and-acceleration-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Force and Acceleration Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-FOR<\/nobr>)) to connect to Scratch 3.0 in a Chrome browser. An update to Chrome in the Fall of 2020 caused this connection to fail. To reestablish this communication you need to update Scratch Link to version 1.3.66. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/vernier\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/vernier\">https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/vernier<\/a><\/a> and click on the &#8220;Direct download&#8221; link to ensure you get the latest version: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"363\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9924\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note that the &#8220;Get it from Microsoft&#8221; link may give you an outdated version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to install Scratch Link to allow other hardware (including our ) to connect to Scratch 3.0 in a Chrome browser. An update to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","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\/86433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}