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Episode: 2144
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Title: HPR2144: An Interview with All About Code at Manchester BarCamp
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2144/hpr2144.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 14:51:41
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This is an HBR episode 2,144 entitled, an interview with all about Kodat Manchester Barcamp
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and is part of the series, Interviews. It is hosted by Tony Humek at Tony H1,212 and is about
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8 minutes long. The summer is. This is a follow-up interview with Josh Harky who has been busy
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Okay, this is Tony Humek for Hacker Public Radio and I'm still at Barcamp Manchester and I've got
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with me all about Kodat or Josh Lowe as he's commonly known. I interviewed him a few weeks ago when
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we were at Blackpool Raspberry Jam but since then he's developed a couple of new projects so I'm
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going to ask him to explain about them. So as Tony said, I'm Josh and I'm known as all at all
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underscore about underscore code on Twitter and you can find me all about code.co.uk and
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not code.co.uk. Josh, would you like to tell us about this new project you've got going?
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So I think it was August since I last did the podcast. So in since August I think I mentioned in
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the last one about HBR15 which is my Python library and I have recently developed a block format
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for it. So what I wanted to do is I wanted to create a bridge between scratch and Python so that's
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what Edublox is aiming to do. So Edublox is built in Blockly which is something developed by Google.
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It's a piece of open source software and it's written in JavaScript. So what happens is you have
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your JavaScript with two things called definitions and generators. So definitions are like you
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color blocks. So what color you want them to be, what type they are and what you want them to say,
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what the user sees basically and then you've got your generators. So each block you can
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use it to do code in different languages. So I think you can have Python, Ruby, Lua,
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JavaScript, all the big coding languages and what that basically does is you set a variable to
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so it uses Python mind. So you set the variable to the code you want it to run. So if you have
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say five blocks it then sets the variable to the code. It then sends it to something called a
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Python bottle server. So if you've used flask bottles like a simpler version of that and
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what it does is it sets the variable. The index HTML file basically has a workspace where you
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can drag and drop the blocks. It then sends it to the server and it runs. So that's available to
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download. If you go to EduPyzen.co.uk forward slash hash tag blocks you'll be able to find the
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guide there. And is it easy to install and what operating systems will it run on?
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Yes. So it's really easy to install. I think it works on most Linux distros on the Raspberry Pi.
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So because it uses GPIO pins and Minecraft Pi obviously you can't use it on like you're a
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Ubuntu desktop and that. But I'm hopefully getting it so that you can access the HTML file from
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a desktop computer or an iPad and it will basically just run it on the Raspberry Pi and it's
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basically like you're using it. So it's a two line installer. So let's pound a kind of created
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install script. So you do you get it via the command line and then you use sudo bash to execute
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the script. So where do you envisage this piece of software going? So I think
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since I released it on Sunday and since the day after someone used it in lessons in a school
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in Coventry and then the next day they created documentations. So the aim basically is to get
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a worldwide kind of known way for the bridge for Scratch to Python. So what I kind of want to do
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is my aim is to get maybe a hundred people making that transition. So I'm going to
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MOSFEST in London and hopefully make some transitions. My understanding is you've written this
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so that children transitioning from Scratch can start to understand the underlying code for Python
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and when you put the blocks in can you see the Python code? Yes so the blocks are exactly the same
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as Python, indents and everything. So if you make a block program and you type that into Python it
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will be exactly the same. So it's basically the same as Python, blocks through blocks.
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Thank you very much. I believe you've also designed a kit that you're hoping to get out there
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into the community. So I'm currently in talks with CPC and Pomoroni to map my own kit. So the first
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one is a starter kit. So that includes LEDs, wires, breadboards, you basic starter electronic kits
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and what my idea is is to have these kits for around £8 at the retail price and I'm hopefully
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getting them out into schools. So I've selected some schools that are going to get them and once
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they have reviewed them and used them in class I hopefully want to get it out to the public in
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the next three to six months. Well we're here at BarCamp Manchester but I believe you're going
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to be attending another event shortly. Do you want to tell us about that? Yes so at the end of October
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which is actually Halloween weekend I've been invited to MOSFES. So what MOSFES is is if you've
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ever used Missilla Firefox which I think most people have. It's basically their yearly annual
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festival that they do. So that's down in London in a college opposite the O2. So it's basically the
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big festival where the whole web community comes together in one venue and I will be in the use
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zone. I don't know where it's located in the building but I will be running a workshop on
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edu box. So what my idea is to get Minecraft and edu Python integrate them because it's on Halloween
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weekend we're going to put a Halloween twist on it. Oh thank you Josh and for the listeners out
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there if you want to meet Josh in person and you're going to MOSFES. Lucky me out lucky me up. So this
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is Tony Hughes from Hancock Public Radio signing off. Thank you.
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