At #Snapcon25 Andrea and @xota share their reflections on the #TurtleStitch10 meet up in #Tilburg.
We celebrated 10 years of #creativecoding in @turtlestitch - which is built on @SnapCloud
#computing #embroidery
https://www.turtlestitch.org
We're in the last event of Snap!Con25 and it's been just plain wonderful to connect with "old" and new members of the community. ❤️ 🎉
Thanks to all our speakers and participants online and in person in Heidelberg. And an even bigger thank you to our co-organizers at the University of Education in Heidelberg, you've been wonderful 🙏
@SnapCloud v11 released!
It includes the new S4A Connector, that will be presented next Monday at #SnapCon25 on the "After Snap4Arduino" talk
https://www.snapcon.org/conferences/2025/program/proposals/835
and also there will be presented the Snap Creative Learning Lab resources
https://snap.creativelearninglab.click/
@moenig
https://mastodont.cat/@moenig@fosstodon.org/115113331371667802
## Snap4Arduino For over ten years, Snap4Arduino has allowed us to connect Snap! to different boards (UNO, Nano, Mega, Leonardo, Micro, Due, 101, ESP8266, NodeMCU...) to obtain data from multiple sensors and control devices from our virtual projects made with Snap! With the arrival of Microblocks, now we can apply our dynamic programming (in the Smalltalk way) directly inside our microcontrollers... and we can also easily connect them to Snap! Therefore, we can create different projects (using Snap! for the virtual world and Microblocks for the physical one) and build interactions between them. However, we often still want to use simple boards that are not compatible with Microblocks (basically UNOs), or we simply prefer to use a single environment (Snap!) to create our projects and use actuators and sensors as "direct" complements to them. That is why it still makes sense to maintain this "direct connection" between Snap! and those classic boards. ## S4A Connector We present the new extension **S4A Connector** to perform this task. **"Snap! for All firmata boards Connector"** wants to continue the work of S4A and Snap4Arduino and offer a build-in extension inside the official Snap itself. It will no longer be necessary to maintain a special Snap! distro, nor install any plugin to our browser... Directly from Snap! using a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge...) we will connect to our "firmata" devices.   ## Snap Creative Learning Lab And in order not to overload Snap! but continue to offer all those functionalities that schools need (a firmware uploader, libraries and templates for different hardware used in schools...) we also present a new web space **[Snap! Creative Learning Lab](https://snap.creativelearninglab.click/?redirect=0&lang=en)**  In this space we will also try to document other functionalities. It wants to be Just one click to get tools and resources to play Snap! in your own Creative Learning Lab. Just connecting Microblocks and UNOs, making with your laser cutters, plotters, embroidery machines and 3D printers, embedding and managing Snap! and Microblocks projects from your school Moodle…  ## Play live S4A! This is not a workshop, but maybe you want to play live the new library. If you are online, any UNO board allows you to test S4A Connector. For in person participants, some devices will be available for everybody.
Come to Heidelberg this late summer for Snap!Con 2025! From the 1st to the 3rd of September, 2025, we will return to Snap!Con’s roots at PH Heidelberg to meet, share, learn and have fun together. Join the Snap! team and the community of creative computing educators, appreciators & enthusiasts in a unique event of contributing and celebrating computing pedagogy. Contribute The call for contributions is now open (https://www.snapcon.org/conferences/2025/program/proposals/new)! Tell us your ideas, show us your projects, share with us your insights and materials, spread the wisdom, the gimmicks and the awesomeness! We’re interested in your Talks - 15 mins + 5 Q&A Lightning talks - 5 mins, Q&A at the end of the session Workshops / discussions - 90 mins, interactive & collaborative, not a talk (!) Projects - 3 mins (Snap! projects only, no slides) BoFs - informal discussions about a shared topic - 30 mins, not a talk (!) Back to Heidelberg This year’s conference will be co-located with Snap4Europe, an outreach program developed by our hosts at the PH Heidelberg. There will be keynote addresses, a conference dinner and an excursion to SAP. The conference will take place in person in Heidelberg, Germany, all talks will be broadcast online, there will also be opportunities to actively participate remotely in certain sessions. Important dates Registration opens: May 1 Proposals due: May 15 Acceptance Notice: June 15 Conference: September 1-3 Informal pre-conference meet-up: Sunday, August 31 We can't wait to see you all again!
Jens Mönig
Margaret J. Low
SnapCloud
Joan Guillén