Author: Manny Quinto

What is the difference between digital read pin vs analog read pin? We use digital read pin when we want to read a digital (0 or 1) signal from a pin in the microbit board. The general purpose input and Read More …

This tutorial will aid us to learn how to use a flame sensor module on the microbit. A flame sensor is a high sensitive device that can detect infrared rays coming from a fire/flame or other light sources. The flame Read More …

Controlling External LED with Microbit To control an external LED using the microbit, one has to be careful with the right orientation of the LED pins when supplying power through it. The longer pin of the LED is the anode Read More …

Variables Variables hold a specific type of information. Programmers use variables to hold the value of information that may change.  For example, a game program can have a variable to hold the current player’s score. Microbit variables can be numbers, Read More …

Each LED on the microbit can be identified by its x and y coordinates as shown on the image below: To turn on and off the LEDs, use the plot and unplot  blocks under the Led category of the Block Read More …

It’s important that we need to learn the basics of electronics and have a solid foundation on how things work before we move further on our micro:bit learning adventure. Most of what we are going to make are made up Read More …

Exploring how to program would be more rewarding if we knew a few fundamental coding concepts. But before we learn basic coding concepts, we need to know why do we need to make a program in the first place. We Read More …

We’re now ready to create our 1st code. The “Hello World” greeting has been customary to all starter programming books as their first sample code. To construct our Hello World program, we need to only do three simple steps: Connect Read More …

MakeCode block programming editor is made by Microsoft and is a free and open source platform for students who have no experience in programming. It uses colored blocks that are group by functions and can be drag and drop to Read More …

Note: These series of tutorials were made for the offline version of Microsoft’s MakeCode app released June of 2019. However, the principles and exercises can also be used with the online version. Requirements 1 unit – BBC micro:bit 1 pc. Read More …