Despite the micro:bit Education Giveaway Challenge being over, one of my teams decided to release their game to the element14 community for everyone to try and enjoy!

This game requires no modification or additional circuit design, and can be played by…

For those Just now joining the micro:bit fun, I am a college professor in game design, and have been involved with various maker and hacker groups for many years. I have been blogging about my experience introducing the micro:bit platform to college students…

I have been teaching programming and electronics for more than two years now. Using the Arduino ecosystem. And I loved it. And most kids older than 5th grade loved it too. But I found that, for younger kids it was a challenge. So I incorporated Scratch…

This was originally posted to our makerspace forum (https://forum.makeit.zone/t/micro-bit-creatures-creating-a-kinetic-scene-with-micro-bits/818 ); any updates are most likely to arrive there first.

This project was inspired and enabled by the Element…

The students at Goodna State School were excited to undertake a new unit of learning with the BBC Micro:bit, thanks to element14 and their Great Micro:bit Education Giveaway.

The Australian Curriculum was introduced a few years ago however, the Technologies…

There have been a few hiccups along the way... but when doesn't that happen!?  I have been noting my journey using Adobe Spark, a free online tool.

Here is my link to what happened! https://spark.adobe.com/page/XkK80vP6mordc/

Thanks for giving us the…

1. Hardware setup

An RGB LED is made of three LEDs: a red one, a blue one and a green one. Some RGB LEDs have the anode terminal (or "+" terminal) in common and some have the cathode terminal (or "-" terminal) in common. The one we are…

1. Color mixing
2. RGB LED - description and types
3. Color mixing program

1. Color mixing

One can display a certain color by mixing only three basic colors: Red, Green and Blue. Adding different levels of each color we get many colors.

If all colors are OFF, we get…

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 their…

Getting Started

In 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 find history…

The Platform

I’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…