Enable GoPiGo blocks in Scratch / Button errors?

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Greetings!

I am making my first foray into Raspbian for Robots and decided to play around with Scratch.

What I like:

  • It’s incredibly internationalized. It supports just about every language available except for, (maybe), Martian.
     

What frustrates me (so far. . . .):

  • I cannot find where, or how to import, the actual scratch blocks to control the GoPiGo’s motors, sensors, lights, etc., as there was in DexterOS. All I can find when I launch Scratch is the default Scratch installation. Including the “Meow!” sound.
     
    What I have done so far:
  • Launched RFR, (Raspbian For Robots), for the first time using a monitor, mouse and keyboard. (they’re still connected)
  • Ran the “DI Software Update” twice. The first time it generated errors due to directories and files being missing. The second time these errors were missing.
  • Configured Locale, (US), Keyboard, (US), Time Zone, (Moscow, +3), and Wireless.
  • Ran “Firmware Update” once which updated to 1.0.0. (It may have already been at 1.0.0, I’m not sure.)
  • Configured the Wireless interface to bind to my WiFi network and set both WiFi and Ethernet to a fixed DHCP lease.
  • Changed the hostname to “charlie”.
  • Verified that I could connect via noVNC.
  • Verified that I could launch and run Scratch.
     

In the course of all this, the system has been rebooted several times.

Not only can I not create new scratch programs for the robot, I am convinced that something is wrong with the examples. Running the “button” example in scratch does not detect the actual sense of the button - nothing happens when the button is pressed.

Attempting to run the GoPiGo button example returns no button presses and reports the following in the terminal:

Rx:button 1
GoPiGo3 Scratch: Error isinstance() arg 2 must be a class, type, or tuple of classes and types
Rx:close eyes
Rx:button 1
GoPiGo3 Scratch: Error isinstance() arg 2 must be a class, type, or tuple of classes and types
Rx:close eyes
Rx:button 1
GoPiGo3 Scratch: Error isinstance() arg 2 must be a class, type, or tuple of classes and types
Rx:close eyes

Obviously something is missing. Equally obvious is that whatever is missing, probably an import or include somewhere, is what’s causing both issues.

Please advise.

Jim “JR”