Comments on: BBC micro:bit dev board

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:08:33 +0000

https://makecode.microbit.org/reference/audio-recording

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:08:12 +0000

https://microbit.org/projects/make-it-code-it/funny-voice-recorder/

What is it?

Record your voice using the BBC micro:bit’s microphone and play it back speeded up – or slowed down.

What you need

micro:bit V2
MakeCode editor
optional: crocodile clip leads and headphones, or an amplified speaker, to increase the volume and quality of the sound

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:17:23 +0000

https://createai.microbit.org/

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:21:33 +0000

micro:bit and AI
Explore AI on and offscreen with tools, resources and more
https://microbit.org/ai/

micro:bit CreateAI
Create AI on your BBC micro:bit using movement and machine learning.
Train a machine learning model on your own movement data and run it on your micro:bit.
https://createai.microbit.org/

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:20:28 +0000

Farnell toimittanut jo 10 miljoonaa micro:bit-taskutietokonetta
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/17022-farnell-toimittanut-jo-10-miljoonaa-micro-bit-taskutietokonetta

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:53:51 +0000

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/17/bbc-microbit-as-handheld-synthesizer/

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 09:14:39 +0000

OpenHarmony development board borrows BBC Micro:bit edge connector
HopeRun’s HiHope development board features a HiSilicon Hi3861V100 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller compatible with OpenHarmony OS and looks very much like the BBC Micro:bit educational board notably with its edge connector.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/09/19/openharmony-development-board-borrows-bbc-microbit-edge-connector/

The board is also designed for youth education (in China) and comes with similar sensors, but there are some differences such as a 0.96-inch OLED instead of an LED matrix and support for offline voice recognition. There’s no wireless connectivity apart from NFC support.

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Sat, 21 May 2022 12:18:57 +0000

Pico:ed Puts RP2040 in Micro:bit Form Factor
By Ian Evenden published 18 May 22
A board for learners
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pico-ed-puts-rp2040-in-microbit-form-factor

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 10:27:49 +0000

Bluetooth Low Energy Swiss-army knife
https://github.com/virtualabs/btlejack

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:41:29 +0000

BBC Micro:bit Reads Morse Code With MakeCode
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/06/bbc-microbit-reads-morse-code-with-makecode/

We always have mixed feelings about the drag-and-drop programming languages. But we were impressed with [SirDan’s] Morse code decoder built with the graphical MakeCode. Granted, it is reading 5 element groups from a button on the BBC micro:bit and not worrying about details such as intercharacter or interelement spacing or word spacing. But it is still a nice demo for MakeCode.

Interestingly, the online editor for MakeCode can apparently simulate well enough to test the program. However, [SirDan] only provides the hex file so we couldn’t try it out. There is a screenshot of the visual code, but you’d have to work out the part that didn’t fit on the screenshot (the data arrays are pretty long)

Morse De-Coder
https://www.instructables.com/Morse-De-Coder/