Comments on: Run BASIC on a BBC micro:bit http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2021/05/run-basic-on-a-bbc-microbit/ reading, writing, coding, making Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: blogmywiki http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2021/05/run-basic-on-a-bbc-microbit/#comment-101465 blogmywiki Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:46:10 +0000 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/?p=3854#comment-101465 Hi Keith - sorry for the delay responding, I was on holiday. Sounds like you have lots of great ideas for projects! I do think Python - or MakeCode - would be the best way to go to, not least because there's a lot of support online in general and from microbit.org in particular. I've not explored the Japanese BASIC port any more, so not sure if it supports radio. I know Ichigon Quest does have a weird radio mode, but I very much doubt Bluetooth would be supported in BASIC. MakeCode's advanced blocks allow you to do some lower level stuff and I can really recommend it if Python isn't appealing. best wishes Giles Hi Keith – sorry for the delay responding, I was on holiday. Sounds like you have lots of great ideas for projects! I do think Python – or MakeCode – would be the best way to go to, not least because there’s a lot of support online in general and from microbit.org in particular. I’ve not explored the Japanese BASIC port any more, so not sure if it supports radio. I know Ichigon Quest does have a weird radio mode, but I very much doubt Bluetooth would be supported in BASIC. MakeCode’s advanced blocks allow you to do some lower level stuff and I can really recommend it if Python isn’t appealing.
best wishes
Giles

]]> By: Keith http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2021/05/run-basic-on-a-bbc-microbit/#comment-101392 Keith Sat, 21 Aug 2021 23:33:47 +0000 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/?p=3854#comment-101392 This looks extremely interesting! I learned BASIC on the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, and BBC Micro many years ago as a teenager. I bought a FUZE BASIC Micro to help my son with programming, as neither of us are very adept with Arduino programming, nor Python. But we have managed a lot of Animatronic control using FUZE BASIC. Although my son appears to have really mastered Makecode Block programming of IO Control on the BBC Micro:bit. So I am going to "borrow" one of his many Micro:bits to try some good old BASIC programing. Looks like I have a lot of Google Translating to do, unless you have plans to share your English Notes? But to be able to control iO on a BBC Micro:bit using BASIC sounds brilliant! Does the Micro:bit BASIC make any use of the Micro:bit's Radio and Bluetooth functions? We are currently working on "automating" some of our garden lights and Water Feature using Micro:bits. These will be governed by the Hub Micro:bit which (currently) has an LCD and RTC attached. The Remote Micro:bits have "local" control functions but rely on comms to and from each other over the Micro:bit Radio function all based on ideas from https://github.com/jimbobbennett/smart-garden-ornaments I am also going to have to see if I kept a PS/2 Mouse in the loft, as your Micro:bit Keyboard is something else for us to try out too. Many thanks for your blog Kind regards Keith This looks extremely interesting!

I learned BASIC on the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, and BBC Micro many years ago as a teenager. I bought a FUZE BASIC Micro to help my son with programming, as neither of us are very adept with Arduino programming, nor Python. But we have managed a lot of Animatronic control using FUZE BASIC. Although my son appears to have really mastered Makecode Block programming of IO Control on the BBC Micro:bit.

So I am going to “borrow” one of his many Micro:bits to try some good old BASIC programing. Looks like I have a lot of Google Translating to do, unless you have plans to share your English Notes? But to be able to control iO on a BBC Micro:bit using BASIC sounds brilliant!

Does the Micro:bit BASIC make any use of the Micro:bit’s Radio and Bluetooth functions? We are currently working on “automating” some of our garden lights and Water Feature using Micro:bits. These will be governed by the Hub Micro:bit which (currently) has an LCD and RTC attached. The Remote Micro:bits have “local” control functions but rely on comms to and from each other over the Micro:bit Radio function all based on ideas from https://github.com/jimbobbennett/smart-garden-ornaments

I am also going to have to see if I kept a PS/2 Mouse in the loft, as your Micro:bit Keyboard is something else for us to try out too.

Many thanks for your blog

Kind regards

Keith

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