Accessing Grove sensors with mBlock

Official Hardware Education Alvik
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Hi all,

I am using Arduino Alvik to teach young kids block based programming. So far it has been an amazing platform and kids have learned quite a lot. A group of kids want to extend Alvik via Grove sensors (temperature, humidity ...). Of course, this could be easily done in MicroPython but this is above their knowledge levels. My question is if there is a possibility to use mBlocks to access these sensors?

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you do have two I2C Grove connectors on the side of the Alvik so from an electronic perspective cabling an I2C sensor there is possible.

There is an extension center you can use with mBlock to extend the default blocks with solid number of extensions you access by clicking the + extension button at the bottom of the blocks area when the device is selected

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but there seems to be a limited choice for the Arduino Alvik at the moment...

You would need to develop one and make it available for the kids (and everyone) I'm afraid.

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I believe I should be able to program these Python blocks:

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However, I do not see any documentation on how these work? e.g., are they implemented as functions, where do i write code for them...

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I don’t know - never did that