Features
Pishi.ai Scratch Features
Pishi.ai enhances the Scratch experience with a curated collection of AI-powered extensions designed specifically for young learners, educators, and creators. These tools bring real artificial intelligence into Scratch in a way that’s visual, interactive, and accessible — all directly in your browser.
Only the best, fastest, and most up-to-date AI models are tested and carefully selected to ensure they work smoothly and safely for kids.
Every extension is fully translated into 26 languages, making the experience truly global and inclusive.
Pishi.ai also comes with a rich, ready-to-use curriculum covering AI, coding, and robotics, empowering students and teachers to explore cutting-edge technology with confidence.
🏆 Why Pishi.ai Scratch is Unique
- 🚀 Web-first, embedded AI
Runs safely in the browser — no downloads or risky links. - 🧠 Top AI models, kid-safe
Fast, reliable, and tested — the best of modern AI made safe for young users. - 🌍 Truly global
Fully translated into 26 languages and built to work even in restricted environments. - 👩🏫 Education-focused
Visual, intuitive, and classroom-ready — perfect for students and teachers. - 📚 Curriculum included
Covers AI, coding, and robotics with hands-on learning materials. - 🛠️ Future-ready
Expandable with upcoming tools like image recognition and more.
🌐 Web-Based AI, Mostly Offline-Capable
Pishi.ai runs fully in the browser. While internet is required to load the site,
most AI extensions work offline after loading.
✅ Offline-capable: FaceMesh, HandPose, PoseNet, ImageTrainer
🌐 Needs internet: Google Teachable Machine, Translate, SpeechRecognition, ChatGPT, Text to Speech
This hybrid model ensures speed, reliability, and accessibility — even in restricted regions.
🧠 AI Extensions by Pishi.ai
🖐️ HandPose
- Tracks multiple hands with 21 keypoints each (fingers, joints, wrist)
- Powered by MediaPipe + TensorFlow.js 4.x
- Real-time and responsive interaction
- Fully embedded — works offline after loading
- Private by design: all processing happens in your browser, no cloud uploads
- Use in gesture-controlled games and interactive animations
- Enable creative projects like hand-drawn art or motion puppets
- Could be used for sign language recognition and educational demos
- Great for classrooms, workshops, and no-code AI exploration
😎 FaceMesh
- Detects 468 facial (eyes, mouth, nose, contours) + 10 IRIS landmarks
- Multi-face tracking: up to 4 faces simultaneously
- Powered by MediaPipe + TensorFlow.js 4.x
- Fully embedded — works offline after loading
- Private by design: all processing happens in your browser, no cloud uploads
- Scratch‑friendly blocks: face count; keypoint X/Y; angle & distance between points; video on/off and camera select, …
- Create expression-aware characters and games
- Use it for emotion-driven animations, filters, or real-time interactivity
- Perfect for AI demos, creative projects, and education
🕺 PoseNet
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- Estimates 17 keypoints on the body (head, limbs, torso)
- Tracks one person’s movement in real time
- Powered by MediaPipe + TensorFlow.js 4.x
- Fully embedded — works offline after loading
- Private by design: all processing happens in your browser, no cloud uploads
- Enable motion-based games, dance challenges, or animations
- Teach body awareness and coordinate mapping
- Ideal for interactive learning, fitness, and art projects
🖼️ ImageTrainer
- Train a custom image classifier directly inside Scratch
- No coding or external services required
- Fully embedded — works offline after loading
- Private by design: all processing happens in your browser, no cloud uploads
- Supports saving and loading trained models
- Great for teaching machine learning basics through practice
- Use in games, sorting tasks, or creative AI projects
- Encourages experimentation and visual understanding of AI
- Perfect for classrooms, workshops, and exploratory learning
🏫 Google Teachable Machine
- Train models visually on Google’s platform — no coding needed
- Supports Image, Pose, and Sound models
- Integrate easily by pasting a model URL
- Requires models to be hosted on Google’s servers
- Use your own or models shared by others
- Ideal for prototyping, experimentation, and classroom demos
- Works well for simple recognition, feedback, or sound-based triggers
- Requires internet connection to access hosted models
🎤 SpeechRecognition
- Converts speech to text in 25+ languages
- Fast, accurate, and works in real time
- Great for voice-controlled projects and interactive experiences
- Works in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome using their built-in speech recognition APIs (no extra setup needed)
- Needs internet connection to function
- Combine with ChatGPT and Text to Speech for voice-driven bots
- Ideal for learning, storytelling, or command-based games
💬 ChatGPT
- Integrate conversational AI directly into Scratch — make your creations think and talk!
- Supports natural language interactions: Q&A, storytelling, tutoring
- Set persona text to shape your assistant’s tone and style
- Set assistant name to give your bot a unique identity
- Choose from preset roles — helper, talking cat, robot, kid, teacher, or storyteller
- Combine with Text to Speech to make your bot talk
- Combine with Speech Recognition to let your bot listen
- Create fully interactive speaking & listening characters
- Choose model from a dropdown (e.g., gpt-4o-mini) and switch anytime
- Update available models dynamically with a filter
- Requires your own OpenAI API key and internet access
- Perfect for games, learning assistants, and storytelling projects
- Encourages creativity, critical thinking, and language exploration
🎨 AI Image Generator
- Generate Scratch sprites and backgrounds directly from text prompts
- Create images using Scratch blocks, without leaving Scratch Environment
- Supports multiple AI engines including OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Stability AI
- Designed for children and classrooms with focused on prompt safety
- Enables creative demonstration without requiring drawing or design skills
- Helps students understand how AI turns text into images
- Introduces early concepts of prompt engineering in a playful way
- Ideal for making characters, scenes, stories, and game assets
- Generated images are automatically added to the current sprite or stage
- Supports lessons on ethical and responsible AI usage
🚀 Bring your inventions, robots, and gadgets to life
powered by Pishi.ai's Scratch
⚙️ Arduino
- The most advanced, intelligent, and user-friendly all-in-one Arduino Scratch extension ever made
- Control your Arduino board directly using Scratch — simple and fun for all ages
- Works with any Arduino running StandardFirmata — the standard, widely used firmware included in the Arduino IDE and available for nearly all boards
- Works directly over USB or Bluetooth BLE — no bridge apps required
- Supports Arduino Uno, Nano, Mega, Leonardo, Micro, Nano 33 BLE, Due, and many compatible boards
- Smart pin menus adapt automatically to your board’s digital, analog, PWM, and servo pins
- Smart Pin Mode Management — automatically handles pin modes and conflicts, so everything works smoothly
- Create with LEDs, buzzers, motors, servos, sensors, and I2C modules using simple Scratch blocks
- LED & RGB tools: turn on/off, blink, fade, and choose preset colors
- Buzzer blocks: play tones, timed beeps, and expressive patterns (like SOS)
- Servo blocks: set angle, sweep smoothly, or stop safely
- Motor control: drive DC motors with adjustable speed and direction
- Sensor helpers: detect pin edges, analog changes, or values in range
- I2C toolkit: enable/disable, read/write in decimal, hex, text, or float formats
- Localized and classroom-friendly UI — perfect for STEM learning
🧩 Built-in Scratch Extensions (AI-Friendly)
🔊 Text to Speech
- Gives your Scratch projects a natural-sounding voice
- Makes sprites speak text aloud in real time
- Supports multiple voices, accents, and languages
- Great for narration, storytelling, and animated dialogue
- Boosts accessibility and language learning
- Pairs well with ChatGPT to create speaking characters
- Simple to use — just type and play
- Requires an internet connection to stream voices
🌍 Translate (Enhanced by Pishi.ai)
- Translate any text into dozens of languages
- Supports multilingual interaction and global accessibility
- Combine with Text to Speech to speak translations aloud
- Use with ChatGPT for intelligent multilingual bots
- Great for language learning, international stories, and inclusion
- Enhances communication and cultural reach
- Requires internet connection and external translation services
- Enhanced by Pishi.ai: ✨ Manual source language control & Google Translate integration (MIT’s service only works on scratch.mit.edu)
😊 Face Sensing
- Detect a face with your camera — browser-only, no data sent
- Follow landmarks (e.g., nose) and react to face tilt
- Scale or control sprites using face size
- Trigger events when a face appears or tilts a direction
- Detect when a sprite touches a face landmark
- Build camera-based games and interactions in minutes