just found out makecode labs and I saw arcadia, so I wanted to try it out but it couldn’t load. can anyone help?https://laboratoryforplayfulcomputation.github.io/arcadia/ )
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Vegz78
April 9, 2024, 2:07pm
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Agree, @urassari ! The Arcadia lab would be fun to get running again!
I looked at it some time ago, tried to get it to run locally, in older versions of the editor etc., but eventually gave up and created an issue, which still is unreplied to:
opened 07:24PM - 21 Jan 23 UTC
Hi and thanks for this exciting MakeCode project, which I was hoping to use in a… n upcoming school maker/coding faire!
But when I try to link to this main version from the [MakeCode Labs](https://makecode.com/labs) pages, I only get an eternal loading screen which never reaches the editor window:
https://laboratoryforplayfulcomputation.github.io/arcadia/
Then, trying your newer/experimental WebRTC solution, the camera(only the back, not the front, on school Chromebooks) works, but I can not get it to recognize any of the black and white patterns.
Lastly, the best result I managed to achieve after quite some hours trying to install, build and the Arcade pxt editor locally, was the same eternal loading screen, like for the first point. I tried also many older versions of pxt and nodejs, from about around the time of the last updates of this project.
It would be great if you got this Arcadia to work again online, or if we could get a little help getting it to work on a local server!
PS: I notice that you "fairly recently" made some fixes for webcam and @pelikhan make a pull request for upgrading pxt, and MS still links to the project on the Labs pages. So hopefully, this project is not abandoned?
Looks like the Laboratory for Playful Computation isn’t especially active anymore…
But there are some contributors still active in @MakeCode / Microsoft who might still shed some light on this?:
@peli ?@tballmsft ?
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@Vegz78 this was a project that a Microsoft Research intern did many years ago, but I don’t think anyone is maintaining it anymore
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