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This beginner course introduces MakeCode programming with the BBC micro:bit through holiday decoration projects. Learners work with buttons, loops, music, speakers, radio signals, and neopixels, including wiring and creating light patterns.
Syllabus
What's in today's episode
What an you do with micro:bits and kids?
Get started with MakkeCode
Adding extensions to MakeCode
Using the On Start block
Using an On Button Pressed block
Looping with micro:bit
Music with micro:bit
Adding a speaker to your V1 microbit
Neompixels for micro:bit
Wiring your neopixel to your micro:bit
Neopixel patterns
Next in the Code Garden
Taught by
Microsoft Reactor