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For over ten years, Snap4Arduino has allowed us to connect Snap! to different boards (UNO, Nano, Mega, Leonardo, Micro, Due, 101, ESP8266, NodeMCU...) to obtain data from multiple sensors and control devices from our virtual projects made with Snap! With the arrival of Microblocks, now we can apply our dynamic programming (in the Smalltalk way) directly inside our microcontrollers... and we can also easily connect them to Snap! Therefore, we can create different projects (using Snap! for the virtual world and Microblocks for the physical one) and build interactions between them.

However, we often still want to use simple boards that are not compatible with Microblocks (basically UNOs), or we simply prefer to use a single environment (Snap!) to create our projects and use actuators and sensors as "direct" complements to them. That is why it still makes sense to maintain this "direct connection" between Snap! and those classic boards.

We present the new extension S4A Connector to perform this task. "Snap! for All firmata boards Connector" wants to continue the work of S4A and Snap4Arduino and offer a build-in extension inside the official Snap itself. It will no longer be necessary to maintain a special Snap! distro, nor install any plugin to our browser... Directly from Snap! using a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge...) we will connect to our "firmata" devices.

And in order not to overload Snap! but continue to offer all those functionalities that schools need (a firmware uploader, libraries and templates for different hardware used in schools...) we also present a new web space Snap! Creative Learning Lab In this space we will also try to document other functionalities. It wants to be Just one click to get tools and resources to play Snap! in your own Creative Learning Lab. Just connecting Microblocks and UNOs, making with your laser cutters, plotters, embroidery machines and 3D printers, embedding and managing Snap! and Microblocks projects from your school Moodle…