Scratch group projects – 2017

Scratch

It’s January, so it must be time for this year’s Scratch projects from my grade 10 students. We’re moving on to python, but I’ve posted their projects at http://scratch.lesbg.com Feel free to play them and rate them. This is a first attempt for students, so do please be gentle on the ratings.

One of my personal favorites is Gravity Clash, which is strangely addicting, given how simple it is.

If you want to check out previous years’ projects, they’re also available at the links at the top left. If you have any comments or suggestions for the site itself, please leave them below.

Multiseat systems and the NVIDIA binary driver (update)

Last month I wrote about using the NVIDIA binary driver with multiseat systems. There were a number of crazy tweaks that we had to use to make it work, but with some recent updates, the most egregious are no longer necessary. Hans de Goede posted about an Xorg update that removes the requirement for a separate Xorg configuration folder for the NVIDIA card, and I’ve created a pull request for negativo17.org’s NVIDIA driver that uses the updated Xorg configs in a way that’s friendly to multiseat systems.

To make it Just Work™, all you should need is xorg-x11-server-1.19.0-3.fc25 from F25 updates-testing, my mesa build (source here, Fedora’s mesa rebuilt with libglvnd enabled), my NVIDIA driver build (source here), and the negativo17.org nvidia repository enabled.

With the above packages, Xorg should use the correct driver automagically with whatever video card you have.