During the first week of camp, the goal was to get the students familiar with the MakeCode platform and to get them working with the Micro:bits. As stated before, the majority of these students had either never programmed before and NONE of the...
This has also been published on our MakeItZone forum. I bounced the LockBox/Safe idea around with a few people of different ages, interests, and skill-sets, and got general agreement that this has potential. The next step was to design it.&...
Let's Start with a little introduction. My name is Erik Leitner and I am a STEM and Computer Science Instructional Facilitator at Broward County Public Schools, the nation’s sixth largest district. I am also a Computer Science Fundamentals facili...
Dear friends,I'm happy to share with you the activity that I made during a summer camp in Peerugia, with VERY YOUNG CODERS: a group of 10/15 children, 7/9 y.o. (mostrly 7 y.o.).I was involved as tech educator to make the kids experience a coding ...
The students of the Cambourne Electronics and Robotics Club (CERC) were excited to win the element14 Summer Challenge and immediately got started with the BBC Micro:bits and the Kitronik Inventory kit. CERC conducted two sessions on Sunday 18th Augus...
Radu is one of the most excited members of our club. Descovering micro:bit and kitrokik, he loves it so much that he convinced his parents to acquire for him these kits, such that to be able to do his own researces, at home. Actually, several member...
One of the goals of this ongoing project is to introduce students to microcontroller programming and provide a practical understanding of micro:bit hardware, software, and programming. Microcontroller programming is popular for robotics and understan...
The benefits of coding extend far beyond creating software and websites. Before students start working with micro:bit, they must first learn computational thinking skills, which is the ability to approach a problem in a structured and logical way. In...
The complete and running 10-LED PWM Controller. A messy rat's nest of project wires on this project. It was unavoidable, unfortunately. (Images & video via me.) Driving three LEDs was a good start. The real goal is to control a lot of ...
As we announced in our code club prezi presentation, on 24th of August, we participated to the Robotics festival, at its first edition, that was organized in our town by ”RO063 Wafy”” robotics team. The event took place into one of the Petrila Mine b...
Hi, i participated to the Summer Code Club Challenge together with nicoleta (Nicoleta Cindea). And we established our summer code club. We created a prezi describing „Our story so far”; you can see there what we did at our club and feel the atmosphe...
"Tap-tap, is this thing on?" I'm catching up on things that have already happened. Once I'm sure I'm posting in the right place I'll be adding updates over the next few weeks.These will be reposts of my original notes on our website https://forum.mak...
The three LED Light Show. The start of everything. (All images and videos from me.) Like programming a sound sequence, I thought it would be useful to do the same thing with light. In this project we will start working on developing a Light Show...
The Micro:bit Accelerometer Theremin. Cool case, but no lights this time. (All Images: ME) I didn’t care for the sound that the last accelerometer Theremin produced. I wanted something that produced a pure square wave sound. The result was more...
This week we got the chance to work in Monterrey, Nuevo León, a city near McAllen, Texas, training 15 teachers on how to use technology, digital manufacturing and Electronics to boost creativity in the classroom, micro:bitmicro:bit Summer Code...
Micro:bit Tutorials in SpanishAs part of the work I'm developing with the microbits from the micro:bit Summer Code Club Challenge - Winners Announced!, here are two tutorials on how to start with Microbit (sorry only in Spanish) The first one is...
Aguaforence, analyzing water using art and technology: The micro:bits finally arrived in our office in Mexico City. While we waited for the kitronics kit, we had an idea to do a project in the mexican mixteca, a region with beatiful landscapes b...
About this project This project uses a classroom of micro:bits to pass messages between them in a circle. Each micro:bit listens to the radio for a message that matches the name of the person who is using it, shows something on the LEDs and then...
I've been running Code Clubs using micro:bits for the last nine months and I thought it might be useful to share the format I've been using in case others are interested in doing something similar. Before using the micro:bits I was runni...
About this project If you've done the Heart Monitor Project you would have seen how one micro:bit can send a radio message to another and get it to show an image. In that project the receiving micro:bit showed a heart image when it received ...
The Micro:bit Accelerometer Theremin. Cool case, but no lights this time. (All Images: ME) Continuing on the theme of the Accelerometer Tone Adjusting project, I want to use the idea of very little hardware in building another Theremin. Yo...
The Micro:bit Accelerometer Tone Adjuster. (Image: ME) This project takes the Micro:bit and lets it change tones as you move it around, using the onboard accelerometer as the variable input. This is sort of like the light Theremins I made in the...
Unlock your students potential with these 3 free Lesson Plans for our STOP:bit for the BBC microbit. Students will learn how to code traffic lights and pedestrian crossings with these classroom-ready teaching resources. They have be...
Unlock your students potential with these 6 free Lesson Plans for ZIP Halo for the BBC microbit. Written by a Teacher for Teachers. These resources are classroom ready and designed specifically to help you deliver the curriculum at Key Stage 3, but t...
