Category Archives: microbit

Connect DS18B20 temperature sensor to micro:bit

Posted on April 24, 2019 by blogmywiki

I had a DS18B20 1-wire Temperature Sensor that came with the excellent Sensors CamJam EduKit for Raspberry Pi – I wondered if you could use this with micro:bit to get more accurate external temperature readings. It turns out, thanks to … Continue reading →

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KettleRun3

Posted on April 15, 2019 by blogmywiki

Back in 2016, I made KettleRun, a micro:bit game where you had to navigate your space ship through a canyon in order to be rewarded with a nice, hot cup of tea. Now I’ve made a version for the Pimoroni … Continue reading →

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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This is a slight twist on my original Little Box of Poems I originally made back in 2012.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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