Interactive Around the World Basic Facts Practice with wrist-mounted Microbits. When we received the Microbit Club Pack I divided each set into its own small zipper bag. In each bag there was the Microbit, the cable, and the battery pack with ba...
Hello Element14 community! I'm the manager of a free community makerspace in the Old North End of Saint John, New Brunswick. I entered the Great Micro:bit giveaway after a particularly great summer camp the New Brunswick Community College facili...
This is going to be a game played between two micro:bits. Each player has a ship displayed on the LED matrix. A ship can be a single dot/LED or several LEDs.One LED in the ship is “the head” of the ship. When the “head” takes a hit, the game ends. Ea...
My name is Darrell Little and I have been a volunteer educator and workshop leader for the past several years. I have created a community organization called "Learn To Program, Roanoke" and also a member of the local robotics and makers club. Recentl...
GEMS (Girls Excelling in Math and Science) http://www.gemsclub.org is a 25-year-old international network of STEM clubs for girls. We have clubs all over the world, serving girls in grades K-12. One of our western PA clubs won the Micro:bit opp...
G:rl Power Code Fest Americas!Finally the day came, 4 countries: Perú, Colombia, Chile and Mexico gathered to do the G:rl Power Code Fest Americas, an event where more than 200 girls had the opportunity to share and ideate a small prototype that coul...
Two thirds of the way through the term and the micro:bits are going strong. We've lost one cable and one anti-static bag but otherwise everything is still in working order. I was worried that by this point some of the kids would have lost in...
I'm one of two volunteer teachers at a nearby Detroit high school and won one of the classroom packs. The Teals idea is to get teachers able to teach CS independently by pairing them up with industry professionals until they can teach CS on their own...
Week 2 of my student’s game design development project went pretty smoothly. Students spent most of their time exploring the boundaries of the micro:bit platform, and sorting out the core concepts to their games. Most of the teams strayed away from t...
We are very happy to start with the first series of workshops for girls, in preparation for the G:rl Power Code Fest, a hackathon taking place simultaneously in Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. Here in Jacaranda Education, we decided to ...
Getting StartedIn WEEK 1 of our micro:bit game design project, I introduced both the platform and the project to my students. These students have seen Python before, but have never seen microcontrollers, or dealt with wireless communication. I ...
The PlatformI’m proud to be one of the recipients of “The Great micro:bit Education Giveaway” and received my classroom kit a few weeks ago. I’ve been a college professor for about a decade, and have been involved with the hacker/maker community even...
TL;DR I wrote a tool to make it even easier to download programs to the micro:bit. It's called Microflash and it means when you activate a .hex file you can download that to a micro:bit with just one more click. To install on an Ubuntu ...
¡Por fin soy parte del siglo XXI! He sido maestro por los últimos 23 años, y una de las constantes de este trabajo ha sido el hecho de siempre estar listo para seguir aprendiendo, lo que significa que nunca eres el mismo docente:Nuevos conocimie...
I am part of the 21st century! I have been a teacher for the last 23 years, and one of the constants of the job is that you always need to keep learning, and this means you are never the same teacher: New knowledge means new experiences, which i...
am part of the 21st century! I have been a teacher for the last 23 years, and one of the constants of the job is that you always need to keep learning, and this means you are never the same teacher: New knowledge means new experiences, which in...
Hi everyone, here is Gus from Jacaranda Education in Mexico City. We just started to work with the Microbits this Saturday, inviting kids from the community to try out the first workshop we are developing. We explored the basics of electr...
About this project In this project we'll use micro:bits to make a voting system. Have you ever watched a game show on TV where you "ask the audience" for their answer? We can make the same with micro:bits. To do this project you should have some...
We are going to start a project: develop a digital watch. This is actually going to be a multi-session project that we can expand as much as we like (depending on the level of attending students). We will start with the easiest solution. Once ...
We've now been using micro:bits with our Code Club students for three sessions (6 more to go until the end of term!). We've had 20 kids come this term (ages 9-10). It's been really successful! The kids love using them and need very l...
About this project This project shows how to use the BBC micro:bit radio to make a large display using multiple micro:bits. What you'll need 4 x BBC micro:bit (or more if you have them)1 x Micro USB1 x Computer or tablet8 x AAA Bat...
About this project This project shows how to send radio messages between two BBC micro:bits. One micro:bit will be used by the patient who will press the A button when they feel their heartbeat. The other micro:bit will be used by the nurse and ...
These are several programming languages that I used to program the Micro:bit platform (online and offline options): 1. JavaScript Blocks Editor - https://makecode.microbit.org/ ...
A partial build of the Scary Tapping project above. This started out as a Halloween project – Scary Tapping. It makes the sound of someone, or something, tapping behind a wall, floor, what have you. But it seems to have turned into a "rob...
I have to be honest, when I first read about the micro:bit when it was announced, I wasn't overly impressed. With the large number of single board computers out there it felt a bit under powered. The display was 5x5 LEDs. It didn't support WiFi (it d...
