Archive for August, 2023

MQTT extension for Scratch

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

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Extensions in Scratch let you add additional blocks to the palette. I’ve written about how to create extensions before, but in this post I want to share my latest extension which adds MQTT support.

I don’t have a particular Scratch project in mind for this yet, but publishing and subscribing to an MQTT broker from a Scratch project would allow multiple web browsers each running Scratch to communicate with each other. I’m sure there are some fun things this could be used for.

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