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Beetle Blocks Brings 3D Fun to Fabrication

posted by janrinok on Tuesday October 13 2015, @04:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-a-game-changer dept.
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rob_on_earth writes:

BeetleBlocks aims to bring the fun and excitement of Scratch and Snap! to the 3D and fabrication space.

Control a beetle avatar with simple drag and drop blocks that determine movement/location/rotation/colour/extrusion with loops and variables to create patterns, shapes and objects in 3D in your browser(officially only supports Chrome, but I had no problem with FireFox).

Best experience is to use the File menu and Open one of the examples and swap a hard coded variable with a Random block. If the execution runs too slow hit the turbo button!

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by dbe on Tuesday October 13 2015, @05:45AM

    by dbe (1422) on Tuesday October 13 2015, @05:45AM (#248751)

    Had to look into an example to figure out how to do a recursive call (you need to create a user block), and had a fractal snow-flake drawn in a few clicks.
    Good job, thanks for sharing.
    -dbe

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @09:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @09:36AM (#248788)

    Is anyone else reminded of (2D) LOGO aka "Turtle Graphics", as seen e.g. on the old BBC Micro?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:42PM (#248901)

      No.