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micro:bit and the Picon Zero

"A wise maker always ensures any components are serviceable before use" - Rule of Making No. 624 Now with that in mind this article would have probably been wrote earlier had it not been for a dead motor. A new one took it's place connected to a Picon Zero. A

micro:bit and the PCF8591

Shopping around for some components I came upon this module. It is based upon the PCF8591 chip which contains 4 analogue inputs and one analogue output and has the following sensors on board to play with: * Light sensor * Thermistor * Potentiometer This module can be communicated with over i2c and is

micro:bit ftp?

After creating an awesome project that has stored data in a file on the micro:bit your probably wondering how to retrieve this data. You could sit down and devise some sort of interface to display the file contents line by line on the micro:bit display but you could

micro:bit at the library

"Yeah, and you could also buy some to loan out like books" That's the statement that grew into an idea which ended with forty micro:bit being added to the catalogue at Kirklees Libraries. It came about at a meeting about if any support could be given to the Family

Files on a micro:bit?

Some ideas require that small amounts of data be saved for future use. It would be ideal if this was possible on the micro:bit. MicroPython provides the tools to allow this. MicroPython is an implementation of Python 3 that has been developed to run on microcontrollers with a version

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