7.02 Spinning Bow Tie

Spinning Bow Tie

Let’s code a bow tie that spins when clicked.

Open the Scratch starter project.

Online: open the starter project.

In the starter project, you should see 2 characters, a laptop and a helicopter.

Click on the ‘Bow Tie’ sprite and add this code:

Click the bow tie to run your code. You should see that your bow tie turns 15 degrees clockwise 10 times, turning 150 degrees in total.

Find the point in direction block and, without dragging it, click it to set the bow tie back to its starting position.

Tip: In Scratch you can click on a block to run it straight away. You don’t even need to drag it onto the scripts area first!

To make the bow tie do 1 complete spin, the numbers in your code need to add up to 360 degrees. Change your code so that the bow tie turns 36 degrees 10 times (36 x 10 = 360).

Test your code again. This time, your bow tie should do 1 complete 360 degree spin and end up where it started.

If you want your bow tie to do 4 complete spins, you can change the number in the repeat block from 10 to 40.