Wir starteten heute mit einer großen #MINTmachen Veranstaltung an der
@uni-magdeburg.de mit rund 50 Mädchen der 3. und 4. Klasse aus verschiedenen Magdeburger Grundschulen in den April, falteten den original #Kinderuni Papierflieger, experimentierten mit Elektrobaukästen, bauten Putzroboter mit Bürsten, erzeugten Wasserstoff und Sauerstoff zum Betrieb von Spielzeugautos mit Brennstoffzellen, programmierten kleine #microbit Controller und machen vieles mehr. #MagdeMINT

I'm working on a new parametric design to hold micro:bit boards... You can change the number of boards, space between them, and angle they insert... they also snap into place with a nice little "click" and don't fall out.

(I don't mention my day-job related stuff here much but...)

US-based teachers and librarians can receive $500+ of our micro:bit kits for free.

Join us this summer for a free PD course with Pathfinders Summer Institute. Choose "Circuitry and Robotics with LEGO and MicroBit" by Brown Dog Gadgets.

30 hours of virtual PD & we send you all the materials: A Bit Board Rover Kit and Remote. Spots are limited so apply now. :)

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One of my sons received a #MicroBit for his birthday. It's a microcontroller kit similar to #Arduino, but a bit more kid/student friendly. With input buttons & an LED matrix display & various sensors right on the board. Very cool. He can program it with a Scratch-style visual block language (or JS or Python).

Spent most of this morning bricolaging* a cradle for the BBC Microbit (red-LED device top left) so that it hangs from the top bar of the Z correctly. These are the important things to get right while maintaining yr monogram.

* I am an English teacher and if I say that "to bricolage" is a verb, it's a fucking verb.

Really enjoying trying out the Dance-Detector CreateAI machine learning project @codeclub on my own. Now I need to find a group of children with #microbit s so I’m not just ‘dancing in the kitchen by myself’! #MakerMonday

#AI kamera Elecfreaks pro #microbit
Teď jsme v #codeclub zasekaní v legu, proto jsem sám doma zkoušel jen hello world; představení nechám tedy jiný https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE_37txZCZY

The inimitable @4pip Pauline Maas in her interactive dress telling us some of the coding and making activities in her classroom #teachmeet #MicroBit

Obradoiro de formación de formadores sobre contornos de programación por bloques «Snap!» e «microblocks»

https://mobilizon.fr/events/f0677c36-4858-4b59-bd04-1c46585b8d21

I've had more than one micro:bit board button fail when the solder joint broke loose.

It also looks like only the bottom leg is connected electrically so if that one comes loose you've got no button.

(Well, you can press it *really* hard to force it to make contact.)

Easy to fix with a dab of solder for those who can solder but still a bit annoying.

I used a micro:bit to build a speed monitor for H0-scale model trains. It's programmed in #micropython.

Today I wrote the calibration code, which gives instant feedback when aiming the lasers at the light sensors.

Having an introverted few days, and I could be playing fancy new games on a Steam Deck - only instead I'm programming a tiny little game on a BBC micro:bit.

5x5 red LEDs, with brightness adjustable from 0 to 9! Two buttons! Squeaky little speaker, for beepy sound effects and gleefully robotic speech synthesis!

(Game is 'Volcano Escape' - it started off as a simple driving game but, with creative input from the 7-year-old nephew, now has a Proper Setting...)

Assembled pcb for a microbit aeroplane project. As much experimenting with pcbs as 3d construction material as anything else at this stage, until I actually get the planes flying. It's been in my head for a good few years so nice to see it fitting together.
#weeknotes #jlcpcb #microbit

Any parents out there have experience with the #MicroBit vs #Arduino for kids/pre-teens?

My son saw a friend with a Microbit & was instantly interested... but I already have a few Arduinos lying around the house.

Do you really program it with that #Scratch drag & drop block language?