Longboard Template

Here's a link to a PDF of a longboard cutting template with the truck bolt hole pattern.

Lloyd Kahn (age 76) on skateboarding

I love this video of my friend Lloyd Kahn (founder of Shelter Publications) talking about his joy of skateboarding. He's 76, and started boarding as a wee lad of 65.

Picoboard for Scratch

The Picoboard ($45) lets you connect Scratch to the real world. It comes with a a light sensor, a microphone, a push button, and a slider.

Dew Drop Game

Enjoy the Dew Drop retro video game, which was programmed using Scratch!

Pixel Dude drawing application for iPad

Pixel Dude is an image editing app for the iPad. Like the name suggests, it's pixel based, and is good for drawing chunky graphics. The drawing area is a 32 by 32 grid of squares, which I find to be more than enough for my purposes.

I've always liked the look of the Space Invaders aliens, and by using Pixel Dude's symmetrical drawing tool, it's very easy to create characters that have that Space Invaders look. The application has a lot of other features, like layer support and unlimited undo and redo.

Once you are done drawing something you can email it or save it to Dropbox.

Here's the PDF link for Getting Started With Scratch

Visit this site for a resistor color code guide.