<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I wasn’t there last Friday. I have six microbits and 5 microbit robot cars. I’ve programmed them all from the microbit makecode website using block coding. Easy and fun.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ed<br class=""><div class="">
<div>__________<br class=""><br class="">Ed Angel<br class=""><br class="">Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)<br class="">Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico<br class=""><br class="">1017 Sierra Pinon<br class="">Santa Fe, NM 87501<br class="">505-984-0136 (home)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:edward.angel@gmail.com" class="">edward.angel@gmail.com</a><br class="">505-453-4944 (cell) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel<br class=""></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 9, 2020, at 10:02 AM, Owen Densmore <<a href="mailto:owen@backspaces.net" class="">owen@backspaces.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is the tiny, but feature packed, chip we discussed at Saveur last week: <a href="https://microbit.org/guide/features/" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">https://microbit.org/guide/features/</a>. Great learning tool.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is surprisingly capable .. it can "chat" to other microbits .. let them "swarm". It is programmable with "blocks", python, javascript.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">25 individually-programmable LEDs<br class="">2 programmable buttons<br class="">Physical connection pins<br class="">Light and temperature sensors<br class="">Motion sensors (accelerometer and compass)<br class="">Wireless Communication, via Radio and Bluetooth<br class="">USB interface</blockquote><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You use a browser based simulator to write programs, loading them to the microbit via usb cable. A $20 starter package has the microbit, a usb cable, and a battery pack for using the microbit disconnected from your computer.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/micro-bit-BBC2546862-Micro-go/dp/B01G8X7VM2/" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">https://www.amazon.com/micro-bit-BBC2546862-Micro-go/dp/B01G8X7VM2/</a></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> -- Owen</div></div>
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