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DLAB STEAM activity - January 16th 2018   Idea to explore  Inventing with Microbits     STEAM  Activity analysis  Science  Technology / Digital technology Engineering The arts Mathematics   Electricity and conductive materials. Making circuits.  Coding a microbit Making models...

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Look under 'advanced' and 'pins'
Long pin on 0, short pin on GND

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Electro Dough Kit | Make | Tech Will Save Us

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Create your own shapes and learn about circuits. Then bring them to life with lights and buzzers!

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We got the Technology Will Save Us Electro Dough Kit out again to make a festive project whilst learning about how electricity works. We've reviewed the Electro Dough kit in a previous project making a squeaky mouse.

We made a Christmas tree with Christmas LED lights and the kids added a buzzer to the star! Using conductive play dough to learn about electronics is fantastic hands on way for kids to explore how electricity works. Our step-by-step guide will help you make a festive conductive playdough project to try at home.

What you need

You will need:

1 x Technology Will Save Us Electro Dough Kit / Squishy Circuits

Batteries for power (4 AA)

Conductive play dough (ours is homemade)

Air drying clay (non-conductive material)

How to make

The Code Club website has a great recipe for conductive play dough. For this project we used Creme of Tartar instead of lemon juice (it was what we had in the cupboard at the time). We then divided the dough into smaller balls and added food gel colouring to make red, yellow and green.

We experimented with air drying clay and were pleased to find it acts as a brilliant non-conductive material. Using cookie cutters we created a Christmas tree shape and allowed it to dry overnight.

Assemble the project

Copy the shape of the clay Christmas tree in conductive play dough. It's really important that you have no gaps in the dough.

Now add baubles (we used red play dough balls) and a yellow star, made using the conductive play dough, on top of the clay tree. Make sure none of your decorations touch the conductive dough under the clay.

Add the electronics

It takes a bit of trial and error to get this part right, but the kids really enjoyed figuring it out and thinking about how electricity flows. There are great resources on Adafruit about how electricity works.

Insert the black wire from the battery pack into the conductive Christmas tree and the red wire into the first conductive decoration. Connect the decorations with jump wires, thinking how electricity with flow from one to the next. Add the LEDs, one leg into the conductive Christmas tree and one into the decoration. Here you need to experiment a bit, as LEDs have a positive and negative wire.

The kids added a buzzer to the star to finish off our project. Unfortuantely the LEDs are very faint and it is really hard to take a picture showing them shining. We can assure you, it worked and the boys were very pleased with the result!

Buy Electro Dough Kit from Technology Will Save Us.

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Conductive Play Dough Christmas Tree Project

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We got the Technology Will Save Us Electro Dough Kit out again to make a festive project whilst learning about how electricity works. We've reviewed the Electro Dough kit in a previous project making a squeaky mouse. We made a Christmas tree with Christmas LED lights and the kids added a buzzer to the star!

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Hands on Stem Learning

Learn about electric circuits by bringing your modeling dough creations to life! The possibilities are endless!

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INVENT. CREATE. EXPLORE.

Squishy Circuits uses conductive and insulating play dough to teach the basics of electrical circuits, a perfect blend of play and learning! Our play dough kits, projects, and recipes teach problem solving and engineering concepts and inspire creativity and independent thinking.

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Play Dough Circuit Kits | Squishy Circuits

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Learn about electric circuits by bringing your modeling dough creations to life! The possibilities are endless! View Squishy Kits INVENT. CREATE. EXPLORE. Squishy Circuits uses conductive and insulating play dough to teach the basics of electrical circuits, a perfect blend of play and learning!

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Controlling external LEDs - Microbit - LearnLearn.co.uk

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So far we have only been turning the LED on and off on the Microbit. This is great, but what do we do if we want to increase or decrease the brightness? Well we have a problem. The Microbit can only ever output at 3V.

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Squishy Circuits - Making Insulating Dough

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7. Store in an airtight container or plastic bag. While in the bag, water from the dough will create condensation. This is normal. Just knead the dough after removing it from the bag, and it will be as good as new. If stored properly, the dough should keep for several weeks.

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I recently saw this excellent TED video about how to teach the basics of electricity to children using electricity conducting playdough and letting them be circuit designers, and decided to try it out. The dough can be hooked up to all kinds of fun stuff including LEDs, motors, arduinos, MaKey MaKeys etc.

Playdough can be made from things you already have in your kitchen, and it's quite easy to make. You'll need to make two types of playdough, one for the insulating dough and one for the conductive dough. The original recipes can be found here, but Americans use this funny thing called "cups", and as true geek I only think in SI units*, so here's the actual recipe that I followed:

The stuff you'll need:

First, I made the conductive dough, using:

250 ml tap water

200 g flour

75 g salt

135 ml lemon juice

15 ml vegetable oil

food coloring (optional, I used green which is my favourite colour)

Add all the ingredients except for about 60-70g of the flour in a pot and stir well.

Heat over medium temperature, and continue stirring. It will start to boil and thicken. Keep stirring until it looks like this (big ball of dough):

Put the dough on a baking tray with a bit of flour, and knead in the remaining flour, a bit at a time, until you reach that special playdough-y consistency. Check the quality by making some basic sculptures.

And now for the insulating dough! You'll need:

200 g flour

110 g sugar

45 ml Vegetable Oil

125 ml deionized water (I couldn't find this so used still, filtered water from the shop)

Mix 140 grams of the flour with the sugar, vegetable oil and a tiny bit of the water (about 15 ml) in a bowl.

Then continue adding a little bit of the water at a time, until most of the water is absorbed in the dough. Then knead in the remaining flour/water until you reach a good playdough-y texture.

Now all you need to do is test the playdough for conductivity and non-conductivity. This can easily be done with some batteries and a LED. Make two lumps of conductive dough, hook it up to the batteries, and stick one leg of a LED into each lump. Notice if you bring the two lumps together so they are touching, it short-circuits and the LED no longer lights up. So stick some insulating dough between the two lumps and voila, squishy circuits 101 is complete. Have fun playing, and please let us know about any cool things you make!

The dough lasts for several weeks if you keep it in an airtight container or ziplock bag. Remember to clean off the batteries/LEDs/metal bits with a damp cloth after using them with the dough, as salt is very good at corroding metal. I learnt that the hard way.

This batch of dough will be a part of the Code Club traveling code show, where we will be teaching the basics of computing, 1s and 0s, or "on" and "off", you get the picture ;)

* Except for when it comes to temperature. I still think in Celsius rather than Kelvin. Oh well.

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I recently saw this excellent TED video about how to teach the basics of electricity to children using electricity conducting playdough and letting them be circuit designers, and decided to try it out. The dough can be hooked up to all kinds of fun stuff including LEDs, motors, arduinos, MaKey MaKeys etc.

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The Micro:bit has been a little late arriving in schools. Hey, there are a million of the things, so it's worth taking the time to make them work, right? But that means that the kids who pick these tiny computers up this spring need to carry on learning (and having fun) well into the school holidays. On the microbit Gadgets site your children can find everything they need in a safe environment, with no community pages and no comments allowed, which means no messaging with or contact from any other children or adults. Just pages and pages of cool projects and fun games, with a good slice of learning thrown in for free. Well, it's all free, but, you know ... help yourselves anyway.

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Microbit Gadgets | Ideas, Resources & Projects For The BBC Micro:bit

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The Micro:bit has been a little late arriving in schools. Hey, there are a million of the things, so it's worth taking the time to make them work, right? But that means that the kids who pick these tiny computers up this spring need to carry on learning (and having fun) well into the school holidays.

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Lesson resources for teachers

Planning and teaching with the micro:bit

Primary ages 7-11

Complete, editable computing units of work and resources with cross-curricular links for art, science, geography and more, curriculum-linked to England KS2 and Code.org elementary CS Fundamentals.
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Secondary ages 11-14

Units of work with downloadable, editable resources covering computing fundamentals through to cyber security, cryptography and creative design projects, curriculum-linked to England KS3.
Search secondary lessons

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Planning and teaching with the micro:bit Complete, editable computing units of work and resources with cross-curricular links for art, science, geography and more, curriculum-linked to England KS2 and Code.org elementary CS Fundamentals. Search primary lessons Units of work with downloadable, editable resources covering computing fundamentals through to cyber security, cryptography and creative design projects, curriculum-linked to England KS3.

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About this project

This tutorial will show you the basics to get started with BBC micro bit.

Project info

Full instructions provided

Hardware components:

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Software apps and online services:

The micro:bit (also referred to as BBC micro:bit, stylized as micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK.

The board is 4 cm × 5 cm and has an ARM Cortex-M0 processor, accelerometer and magnetometer sensors, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, a display consisting of 25 LEDs, two programmable buttons, and can be powered by either USB or an external battery pack. The device inputs and outputs are through five ring connectors that are part of the 23-pin edge connector. We can do pretty cool stuff with this micro bit and I am going to show you one.
Hardware Description:
So let's test our micro:bit before programming it. There are two ways to test your micro:bit.

1. via USB cable: You can test your micro:bit just to see if it is working fine or not. To do so connect your micro:bit to your computer via USB cable and wait for a second your micro:bit will display "HELLO" by blinking LEDs. If it does, then it is working fine.

2. via Battery Connector: Insert batteries into battery box and connect your micro:bit via power pins and then see if it's displaying "HELLO". If it does, then it is working fine.

So now let's move to coding. Let us see how we can code and display "Hello" manually. Below are some steps to follow.
1. Go to Makecode.com:
Microsoft MakeCode is actually a platform that allows us to code for a micro:bit, and also provides an interactive simulator where we can debug and run our code, and will be able to see what to expect out right there on the site.

Go to MakeCode and choose Micro:bit and click on code.

After this, you will see the following screen. As we can see that there is one micro:bit simulator, which will show the output instantly when we will finish writing our code.

We can see that there are different tools to program the micro:bit just next to simulator. It is quite easy to program by dragging and dropping the blocks, and if you want to see the codes behind, then you can click on JavaScript and it will display JavaScript code there in IDE.

Let's get started and display "HELLO" on our micro:bit. To do so, you just need to go to basic and scroll down to see an onStart block. Now drag and drop, and again go to basic and search for the show string <hello> block. That's all; now you will see HELLO on your simulator.

After completing this step micro:bit will restart itself and run the code. It will display "HELLO" there on the simulator. Quite easy? Yeah, quite easy. So let's move on and code for the rest.

To display a rectangle on a micro:bit. Go to basic and find forever block and drag and drop it. Again you go to basic and drag show LED block, and turn on all the LEDs you want. For me, it is square/rectangle. That's all, and it will display rectangle/square on the micro:bit.

For the button pressed event, go to input and drag button A is pressed block out and insert one showString block inside it. Then customize the text you want to display when button A is pressed. For me, it is MICRO.

Same goes for button B pressed and customize the text. Here is the sample.

That's all for the coding part.

Plug in the Micro:bit to a computer via USB.

After plugging in, you should see HELLO on your Micro:bit by default.

Now go to Makecode.com and download your program that you have written there.
Thanks :)
Now go to your download folder and copy the downloaded Hex file in MICRO bit Drive.

Now wait for a second for Micro:bit to restart, and it will start displaying output automatically.

Now let us see how to run our code on the actual Micro:bit.

Go to your computer or press Windows +E (PC). For Linux, go to files and you will see MICROBIT Drive there.

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A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the micro:bit powered by Microsoft MakeCode.

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Computing Champions - Computing workshops, training and consultancy

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Our children's workshops deliver hands-on sessions using a range of technology to ensure your pupils are engaged and develop their knowledge of ICT / Computing. Our programming workshops for primary schools are particularly popular!

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https://www.microbit.co.uk/blocks/lessons

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Welcome to BBC micro:bit! This website will be your hub for all things micro:bit, from writing code to sharing your creations.

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The micro:bit was designed to be classroom-friendly from day one. More approachable than just coding, it's a great way to achieve fun, practical results with motivated students.

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Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced BBC Micro:bit Projects And Ideas

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Microbit traffic lights

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In this challenge we are going to create and program a traffic light using lego bricks, leds and the BBC micro:bit.

Check this video clip of the complete traffic light in operation:

Step 1: Building the traffic light:

Use a few lego bricks to build the traffic light. Include your LEDs within your blocks and connect their pins to the red and black electric wires.

Make sure that you always connect the cathode of the LED (short leg, flat edge of the LED) to a black wire and use a blue or red wire for the other pin (anode).

Step 2: Connecting the traffic light to the BBC micro:bit

We recommend using crocodile clips for this step. Check the diagram below to make the right connections:

Step 3: Programming the micro:bit

Our aim is to reproduce the following traffic light sequence:

Check below for the recommended code:

Electronic Circuit

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In this challenge we are going to create and program a traffic light using lego bricks, leds and the BBC micro:bit. Check this video clip of the complete traffic light in operation: Step 1: Building the traffic light: Use a few lego bricks to build the traffic light.

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Welcome to BBC micro:bit! This website will be your hub for all things micro:bit, from writing code to sharing your creations.

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The micro:bit provides KS2 and KS3 teachers with an unprecedented opportunity to introduce children to programming, electronics, and the Internet of Things

In a bid to engage British children in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), the last six months has seen the gradual rollout of 800,000 micro:bit computers into Key Stage 3 classrooms around the country.

This BBC project is designed to inspire Year 7 children by giving them a free, pocket-sized, codeable computer, including an accelerometer, a built-in compass, and Bluetooth. (This pocket PC is actually 18 times faster than the original BBC Micro, which inspired a generation of computer programmers back in the 1980s.)

A wealth of resources

As a core technology partner, Microsoft has worked closely with the BBC to create two of four online programming environments- Block Editor and Touch Develop-that can be used to control the micro:bit. And teachers can find a host of guides and learning resources via the official BBC micro:bit website, including documentation for each of the four available code editors and lesson plans, which also offer a breakdown of which elements apply to the Computing Progression Pathways. (You can also access a selection of alternative lesson plans created by the IET here.)

This wealth of resources, and the ease with which you can program a micro:bit makes them the perfect teaching aid, and although it's only Year 7 children who have got their hands on a free device, a number of primary schools are also showing interest in them. (If you think your primary school could benefit, you can currently buy micro:bit packs in bulk here, or you can buy a single starter kit for £10.49.)

Five key tips

Since the micro:bit launch Microsoft has been working with teachers to get advice for other educators, and here's a list of five key tips that they've pulled together:

"Start by working through activities in the Quick Start Guide for Teachers. It's a really great hands-on introduction to the BBC micro:bit" - Steve Richards, ICT Teacher and Curriculum Team Leader at Eastlea Community School

"Explore the projects and resources on the BBC micro:bit website. There are some really effective lesson plans for the Touch Develop code editor, targeted at all skill levels." - Nic Hughes, Head of Computing at Latymer Prep School

"Kick off with the Block Editor. It's a great graphical coding environment to introduce students to the BBC micro:bit before you start using the text-based programming language." - Jane Waite, Computing at School London Regional Coordinator (CAS London)

"After students have learnt some basic concepts and skills, give them time to experiment. Our best results, and some really creative projects, have come when we've given pupils the independence to explore the new skills they've learnt." - Clifford French, ICT Strategy Manager at Camden School for Girls

"Look for ways to incorporate the BBC micro:bit into a wider project. Some of our kids used them as a brain for a self-driving car, a controller for a robotic arm and as part of a fitness strap." - Steve Richards, ICT Teacher and Curriculum Team Leader at Eastlea Community School

The provision of so much useful documentation means that the micro:bit isn't just limited to IT lessons, either-it can also be utilised in code clubs. And with each micro:bit being connected to the Azure cloud, you can even send live data via the internet, which can then be accessed via web services or Excel in Office 365 (using the PowerQuery add-in). But we're getting ahead of ourselves. In this post we've showcased seven of the best micro:bit projects that you can create today, and whether you're working with beginner, intermediate or more experienced children, you'll find a project to suit your needs.

7 Perfect Projects
PROJECT: Step Counter
TIME: 30-40 minutes

DIFFICULTY: Beginner

A step counter is one of the best ways to illustrate how technology can interpret our actions. Using simple steps, and a number counter, we are able to illustrate how a machine can monitor human behaviour. And with the
PROJECT: Flashing heart
TIME: 10-15 minutes

DIFFICULTY: Beginner

Whilst we're on the subject of health, this next project is a simple introduction to how pupils can create a flashing image, made up by the micro:bit LEDs-in this instance, a heart. In this course you will learn how to program LEDS, how to use the command menu, and how to set an interval between the image displaying.
PROJECT: School bag alarm
TIME: 30 minutes

DIFFICULTY: Intermediate

This project enables you to build the micro:bit into a broader design and engineering challenge. Students will be tasked with creating a theft alarm for their bags, and using the addition of a buzzer they will create their very own personal alarm system.

TIME: 40 minutes

DIFFICULTY: Experienced

Teachers spend a lot of time encouraging students to put their phones away, but this is one good reason to get everyone using their smartphone in class. This project, courtesy of Samsung, uses the ability to pair your phone with a micro:bit to create a trigger for your camera. You can even go a step further to remotely capture video.
PROJECT: Banana keyboard
TIME: 15 minutes

DIFFICULTY: Beginner

Banana keyboard. Do you really need any more information than that? This project is one of the most popular micro:bit tutorials, and it's easy to see why. Via a relatively simple 10-step process you wire up fruit to your micro:bit, make them touch sensitive, and then have them play a sound via a connected buzzer. (You'll need to run a pre-existing script for this one.)

TIME: 15 minutes

DIFFICULTY: Beginner

Keeping time can be one of the hardest things to grasp when you take up an instrument, and everyone struggles with it. This is why metronomes, devices that beep or move at a set interval, are so vital to musicians (especially those starting out). In this project you can create your very own metronome in just a few minutes, with the aid of a micro:bit, a battery poack, some crocodile clips and a piezo buzzer.

TIME: 20-30 minutes

DIFFICULT: Advanced

Test your reaction times with this highly addictive game, which also teaches pupils how to use the function() command, and create specific tasks that return a set result. You'll also discover how to apply Boolean (yes/no) values, and how to coordinate LED display with x/y coordinates. And at the end of it all, you've got a pretty cool game.
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If you're the proud owner of one of the BBC's new Micro Bit microcomputer, you may be looking for some new projects to get your teeth into.

The Micro Bit has been designed for beginners with next to no knowledge of programming. Still, you may be surprised by what its 16MHz ARM CPU is capable of.

We've scoured the web for the best BBC Micro Bit projects we can find, and have listed them below in the hope they inspire you to try your own.

If you're just getting started with the Micro Bit, we recommend you check out a few of the tutorials, uploaded by the BBC and its partners to the Micro Bit website. For those already familiar with coding, you'll find plenty to try yourself in the projects below. Good luck.

Getting started

For each of these projects you can either follow the chosen programming language, or follow the guidance and adapt the steps for one of the other three programming languages supported by the Micro Bit.

The programming language the Micro Bit supports are:

CodeKingdoms JavaScript: a graphical drag-and-drop interface and text-based interface, good for beginners

Microsoft Block Editor: a graphical drag-and-drop editor

Microsoft Touch Develop: a text-based language, which comes pre-installed with a library of Micro Bit commands

MicroPython: a robust, text-based editor used by professional software developers

You can find tutorials and information about each of these programming languages on the Micro Bit site.

Micro Morse Phone

By Technology Will Save Us

The BBC Micro:Bit can be used to send simple radio messages, which is all you need to communicate in Morse code. The Micro Morse Phone project allows several micro:bits to talk to each other using Morse by sending dots or dashes. This tutorial will walk you through using the micro:bit radio library and teach you how to make a Morse translation code book.
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Frustration

By Code Club

Frustration is a very basic but oh-so addictive game that you're quite possibly familiar with already. It consists of a metal hoop or loop that you have to guide along another metal wire without the two touching. If contact is made, a buzzer goes off and you have to start again. This project shows you how to make your own version of the game, with the micro bit showing the number of attempts, rather than making a noise.
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Metronome

By Will.I.Am and the BBC

The BBC Micro:Bit can be used to keep time with music. The Metronome-like project was developed in association with musician and technologist Will.I.Am. It uses a piezo buzzer alongside the Micro:bit to make a noise and show an image on every beat to help the tempo keep in check. The tempo can also be slowed down or speeded up.
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Flashing heart

By Microsoft Block

One of the simplest Micro Bit projects to cut your teeth on is to make the device's LED grid form a flashing heart. You can create the code in the Microsoft Blocks graphical editor. The BBC tutorial will guide you through how to do this, and once you've got your head around it, the same principals can be used to make other shapes.
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Micro Bit countdown timer

By 101 Computing

We can't think of many practical uses for a nine-second countdown timer - besides using it to trial 100-metre Olympic sprinters. However, 101 Computing's tutorial is a novel example of how the LEDs can be used to display numerals.
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Micro badge adaptor

By Technology Will Save Us

Projects by Technology Will Save Us frequently engage your craft skills as well as your coding skills. This tutorial will guide you through how to make a fabric badge, with battery pouch, from your Micro Bit, for LED images or animations. You need to code the Micro Bit's LED display first, though, so take a look at another project - such as the flashing heart - if you're not familiar with how to initiate static or animated patterns.
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Combination Lock

By BBC Make It Digital and Wolfblood

Combination Lock is an easy way to protect your stuff and even to warn you of burglaries. The project relies on using the micro:bit to detect whether a circuit is complete or broken. By creating a circuit of copper tape and attaching a buzzer, your micro:bit will sound an alarm when the protected box, door, or drawer is opened. This tutorial walks you through setting up your very own lock and passcode.
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Touch arpeggiator

By Technology Will Save Us

This is one of the most fun and relatively simple Micro Bit projects so far. Inspired by the BBC Touch Develop tutorial 'Banana Keyboard', it guides you through how to turn your Micro Bit into a touch-activated tone generator. All you need is an electronic buzzer, four wired crocodile clips, a micro-USB cable, and, erm, some fruit. Using this method, you could even play musical scales with more than one buzzer.
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Micro Bit step counter

By The Institute of Engineering and Technology

"I'm walking out the door with my Micro Bit on my mind..." is what you could be saying with if you follow this exquisite, and more involved, guide on how to turn your Micro Bit into a stepometer. Following this project you'll be able to create a working stepometer that could compete with commercial equivalents.
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Remote selfies

By Samsung

Ever wanted to take selfies on your smartphone with a remote control? Well, you can do exactly that by pairing your Micro Bit with an Android handset. This project will suit intermediate and advanced users, and involves a fair amount of coding to trigger the camera and implement the wireless connectivity. Don't forget, for this project you'll need to have access to an Android smartphone and Samsung's Micro Bit app.
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LED circuit game

By Intense Computer Training

This project, from Intense Computer Training, is actually a fair straightforward circuit game. Following the video tutorial (no text version available at the time of publishing), you'll learn how to code the LED display so that individual LEDs can represent your counter on the five-by-five grid.
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Micro Bit racing game

By 101 Computing

This project is a ridiculous slice of work-time fun that's just waiting to engage (or possibly disrupt) classrooms and lunch halls in Britain. Following this tutorial you'll turn the Micro Bit's LED display into a drag racing game for up to five players. 101 Computing guides you through creating the game and duplicating the code for additional players.
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Micro Bit Temperature reader

By Proto-Pic

The Micro Bit can also be turned into a pretty decent temperature reader, which is quite useful given the UK's 2017 heatwave that saw temperatures edge over 30°C. While it lacks a heat sensor, you can configure it to display the temperature of, say, a CPU, which is pretty handy for PC builders. Things get even more interesting when you add a thermistor to the Micro Bit, which can be dipped into food and drinks to record the temperature directly - though this requires some advanced coding and is only for the most dedicated Micro Bit enthusiasts.
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Images in this article courtesy of the respective parties behind each project

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Lego Exploration Make - BBC micro:bit | Tech Will Save Us

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