Microbit

This is most definitely a sandbox page for the micro:bit!

Links

Links first? What?

• micro:bit educational foundation

Installation

• micro:bit code page to use MakeCode or Python editors.

Python

• Can run from web page, but needs Chrome versus other browsers.

Commands

• from microbit import *
  • Imports all commands (note: may want to use prefixes at some point!)
• display.scroll(STR)
  • Scrolls text across 5x5 LCD array
• display.show(Image.IMG)
  • Displays built-in images
• sleep(MSEC)
  • Pauses for the specified number of microseconds

Samples

Hour hand rotation

from microbit import *

while True:
    for k in range(12):
        cmd = "display.show(Image.CLOCK{:0.0f})".format(k+1)
        print(cmd)
        exec(cmd)
        sleep(200)