START A BITShowcase
Things students have built, each one working in the end, usually after a few tries.
Micro:bit
Traffic lights
A fixed schedule first: red, yellow, green.
Traffic lights with a button
A pedestrian button asks for green.
Wire game
Guide a loop along a bent wire without touching it.
Wire game in action
Touch the wire and the Micro:bit shows it.
Digital counter
Buttons count up and down, the LED screen shows the number.
Rain drop animation
Drops falling across the LED screen, with loops.
Flip faces
A first program: a face that changes with each press.
Object sorter with machine learning
A trained model recognises objects, a servo sorts them.
Vehicles and robots
Line following
A small vehicle follows a black line on its own.
Escape from the trap
The vehicle finds its own way out of a closed area.
Robot with object detection
Infrared sensors tell the robot when something is in the way.
Arduino
Parking assistance
An ultrasonic sensor measures the distance to the wall.
Lightsaber prototype
A programmable LED strip with colours and effects.
Music with a buzzer
Notes and melodies from code.
DC motors with a driver
Speed and direction through a motor driver board.