Category Archives: hardware

Surreal random micro:bit story printer

Posted on April 10, 2019 by blogmywiki

This is a slight twist on my original Little Box of Poems I originally made back in 2012. It mashes that up with Papert-inspired random poetry to create surreal haiku-like poems or story starters. This project uses a BBC micro:bit … Continue reading →

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Add a 16×2 LCD display to a micro:bit

Posted on April 2, 2019 by blogmywiki

I had one of these cheap 16 x 2 LCD display modules hanging around that I bought to go with some Arduino or Raspberry Pi project that I never finished – in fact I couldn’t get the thing to work … Continue reading →

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micro:bit binary quiz

Posted on March 31, 2019 by blogmywiki

Here’s a simple micro:bit project to help you practice converting between binary and decimal (denary / base 10) numbers up to 31. Binary place values 16 8 4 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 In this example, 10101 in … Continue reading →

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Teaching logic gates with physical computing

Posted on March 15, 2019 by blogmywiki

I found teaching logic gates one of the trickier parts of the secondary Computer Science curriculum: they’re abstract, dry… not much fun. Year 9 in a girls’ school. Tough crowd. To counter this, I tried to make them a bit … Continue reading →

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Microbit class votes

Posted on April 13, 2018 by blogmywiki

Up to 25 pupils each has a micro:bit which they can use for voting YES or NO to any question. Pupils press button A to answer ‘no’ to a question, or button B to answer ‘yes’. They can shake their … Continue reading →

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