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 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