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  • Author Author: dychen
  • Date Created: 11 Sep 2023 8:01 PM Date Created
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Holidays Wishlist with the BBC micro:bit!

dychen
dychen
11 Sep 2023

Whether you're in STEM teaching or learning, or getting into electronics afresh. Enjoy this wish list of items to help you along your micro:bit journey!


BBC micro:bit

microbit

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BBC micro:bit Go Bundle

microbit go kit

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UniHiker

The UniHiker is essentially a powered-up micro:bit with a 2.8-inch full color touchscreen display with 320×240 resolution.

Unihiker

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Arduino

Micro:bit works with Arduino and the Arduino IDE!

Arduino Uno R4

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Prototyping System for micro:bit

Kitronik Prototyping System

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ZIP Tile Development Board for micro:bit

ZIP Tile Development Board

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LAMP:bit for micro:bit, White LED Street Light Development Board

LAMP:bit

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Grove Inventor Kit for micro:bit

Grove Inventor Kit

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Linear Actuator Kit

Linear Actuator Kit

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Land Climate Action Kit

Land Climate Action Kit

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Inventors Kit, Python Version, English

microbit inventors kit

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Totem Tortoise, Build Your Own Robot Kit

Totem Tortoise Robot

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EEDU Kits

Hackster and DFRobot collaborated to create three EEDU kits aimed at college-level students. These kits are compatible with Arduino and designed to introduce students to the worlds of AI, IoT, and environmental sensors.

EEDU Kit, AI

EEDU Kit, AI

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EEDU Kit, IoT

EEDU Kit, IoT

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EEDU Kit, Environmental Sensor

EEDU Kit, Environmental Sensor

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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 1 year ago +2
    In the 70s I learned to program in RPG on my own on an IBM S/38 that my father had in a large clothing store. Then I had a Sinclair ZX81 and built a kit with the Elektor Junior Computer. The Junior Computer…
  • Najah
    Najah over 1 year ago +1
    As a newbie, never had access to a pc in my early years and teens. I was only desperate to know what it is like to have and use one. I'd normally sneak in to have some few strikes on the keyboard of an…
  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich over 1 year ago +1
    My first computer was the C-64. I was amazed about the speed-up when I programmed a graphic mode clear screen command in Assembler vs Basic. Fractions of a second in assembly vs ~30 seconds in Basic…
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  • JWx
    JWx over 1 year ago

    CA80 - educational DIY computer, shipped with set of books explaining basics of electronics (from simple circuits to the inner workings of CPU) by use of gnomes, positioned as Z81 competition but only with hexadecimal keyboard and 7-segment display (LED first, later VFD) .

    Based on Z80A CPU, programmed using assembler which was entered as hexadecimal opcodes - there was even tape recorder interface if one got bored entering program after each reboot...

    There was some add-ons, including EPROM programmer (in the era when those were unobtainable to the hobbyist) - I don't remember exactly how the content for programming was prepared, but I think that some time later- when I was given PC computer (268, upgraded to the 386sx later) and built EPROM emulator from the kit, that emulator was connected to one of EPROM sockets of CA80 and data was copied from it to the real memory.

    There were even some games included IIRC...

    CA80 - display and keyboard

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  • JWx
    JWx over 1 year ago

    CA80 - educational DIY computer, shipped with set of books explaining basics of electronics (from simple circuits to the inner workings of CPU) by use of gnomes, positioned as Z81 competition but only with hexadecimal keyboard and 7-segment display (LED first, later VFD) .

    Based on Z80A CPU, programmed using assembler which was entered as hexadecimal opcodes - there was even tape recorder interface if one got bored entering program after each reboot...

    There was some add-ons, including EPROM programmer (in the era when those were unobtainable to the hobbyist) - I don't remember exactly how the content for programming was prepared, but I think that some time later- when I was given PC computer (268, upgraded to the 386sx later) and built EPROM emulator from the kit, that emulator was connected to one of EPROM sockets of CA80 and data was copied from it to the real memory.

    There were even some games included IIRC...

    CA80 - display and keyboard

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    JWx over 1 year ago in reply to JWx

    after initial testing it is currently unbootable (after about 30 years) - but maybe something simple (like oxidized contacts). I have verified how was EPROM programmer used - there is still cable connecting to the EPROM emulator board attached to one of memory sockets on processor board...

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