{"id":12305,"date":"2015-03-30T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12305"},"modified":"2015-03-30T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:21:50","slug":"using-the-pistop-with-scratch-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12305","title":{"rendered":"Using the PiStop with Scratch on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/teachprimarycomputing.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/img_4908.jpg?resize=560%2C747\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Teacher Cat Lamin has written up a quick sort-of review of the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/4tronix.co.uk\/store\/index.php?rt=product\/product&amp;product_id=390\" target=\"_blank\">PiStop<\/a>\u00a0from 4tronix. This simple little GPIO plug in board gives you access to some traffic light LEDs that you then program using your favourite language on the Pi. Cat&#8217;s class have used ScratchGPIO and she&#8217;s blogged about how to do that as well as give her overall impressions of the device. Well worth reading if you want a cheap, simple way of getting into GPIO programming. <a href=\"https:\/\/teachprimarycomputing.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/30\/the-pistop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it here<\/a>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/4tronix.co.uk\/store\/index.php?rt=product\/product&amp;product_id=390\" target=\"_blank\">buy a\u00a0PiStop\u00a0from 4tronix<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher Cat Lamin has written up a quick sort-of review of the brilliant PiStop\u00a0from 4tronix. 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