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Using weather data in Scratch

Friday, March 31st, 2023

In this post, I want to share an example of Scratch projects that use live weather data.

At the Raspberry Pi Clubs Conference last week, I talked about the idea of Scratch projects that use live data: projects that do something different every time you run them, based on when or where they are run.

I love this idea. It’s something I’ve talked about many times – like when I tried bringing NASA data into Scratch, or when I built Scratch extensions for different web APIs, such as Wikipedia, Twitter, and Spotify.

I think doing this brings a new perspective to Scratch. Live data can bring projects to life.

So I thought I’d share another example: this time, weather data from Open Meteo.

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