At Hackaday, we love things both from scratch and in Scratch, Scratch being the blocks building helpful language for teaching kids and the like how to program. However, when you have a large amount of data that needs to be processed, queried, and collated to get meaningful insights, it is a pain to rewrite a SQL query every time a new question arises that needs an answer. So perhaps a more elegant approach would be to give the people asking the questions the tools to answer them, but rather than teach them SQL, Mongo, GraphQL, or any other database, give them the tools to scratch out the answers themselves.

How I made advanced BI queries child’s play with Scratch puzzle pieces
https://pixelspark.nl/2022/making-advanced-bi-queries-childs-play-with-puzzle-pieces

If you have been for (or against) Rust in the Linux kernel, get ready for a Linux kernel module written in… Scratch. That’s right. Scratch, the MIT-developed language with blocks popular for teaching kids to code. We didn’t mean “from scratch.” We meant IN Scratch. The bootstrap code and Makefile is out there on GitHub.

Of course, it is a simple module and the reason it is possible is because of the scratchnative system that lets you compile Scratch into C code. If you want to look at the decidedly simple code, you can open it in your browser.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vm9r63/i_wrote_a_kernel_module_in_scratch/

Create new objects for your video games with Scratch’s vector drawing app.

S4A is a Scratch modification that allows for simple programming of the Arduino open source hardware platform. It provides new blocks for managing sensors and actuators connected to Arduino. There is also a sensors report board similar to the PicoBoard one.

The main aim of the project is attracting people to the programming world.

This Scratch Extensions Browser Plugin allows you to use LEGO WeDo 1.0, the PicoBoard and other serial or USB devices with the online version of Scratch.

This Scratch extension lets you interact with the physical world using an Arduino board. For example, you can control lights and motors or measure light and temperature. The extension communicates with an Arduino board running the Firmata firmware.

The Arduino extension uses ScratchX, which is the Experiemental Extension system for the Scratch programming language.