Invent to Learn - Guide to the micro:bit
The Invent to Learn Guide to the micro:bit was written by Pauline Maas and Peter Heldens. Bring your interactive inventions to life. Learn to create dozens of simple or complex, forever...
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The Invent to Learn Guide to the micro:bit was written by Pauline Maas and Peter Heldens. Bring your interactive inventions to life. Learn to create dozens of simple or complex, forever expansive, hands-on projects using upcycled junk, craft supplies and one or more BBC micro:bit.
This book is a must read for educators, school leaders, librarians, technology developers and parents. It combines coding, craft, and creativity to teach physical computing, engineering, computer science, and electronics.
Features
- Learn to make code using one or more BBC micro:bits.
- Appealing to a wide variety of students and teachers.
- Projects with endless possibilities, allowing you to change and customise to work for you.
- Students will learn computing principles and have fun doing it while they're programming.
- Code not working? Learn strategies to problem solve your work.
- Overcome new challenges that you will find on your journey.
- This book provides thorough and developmentally appropriate explanations of real block-based computer programs, ensuring the reader can easily gain an understanding of the necessary concepts.
- Most of the projects have been created for the V1 micro:bit but many of them have adaptions to work with the new V2.21 micro:bit.
Sample Projects
Complete a variety of projects and build on them to make them your own and make them even more challenging.
- RC cars & boats
- Doll hacking
- Musical fruit
- Handheld computer games
- Interactive holiday decorations
- Drawing robots
- Game controllers
- Wearable computing
- Building probes, collecting, and analysing data
- Scratch, Python, and the micro:bit
Find your BBC micro:bit Project Kit & Accessories here!
You can do a lot with a BBC microbit but you can do so much more when you combine it with a microbit project kit and accessories. We've carefully selected project kits and accessories from world leading manufactures including 4tronix, DF Robot, Elecfreaks, Kitronik, Monk Makes , Seeed and Sparkfun to create a one stop shop for you.
To help you find the perfect microbit project for your students or the vital missing component to finish your microbit project we've sorted our extensive range of BBC micro:bit projects and accessories into sub-categories. Click on a sub-category and then use the filters to narrow your search even more.
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