BBC’s MakeCode is the main coding platform for microbit, which is the mini-computer for Tobbie. You can download pre-made programmes for Tobbie, but you’ll also want to create your own programmes from scratch. When opening a new project in MakeCode, the standard code menus are available, but there’s no sign of the menu that contains…
Scratch is set up really well to integrate with a range of hardware, such as webcams, microphones, and Lego products such as Mindstorms. It also integrates with microbit, which is what Liam has been trying out recently. Microbit contains accelerometers, so can act as a motion sensor. We used this feature to create a game…
As coding platforms go, we love Scratch. One of the best things about it is that you can connect other hardware to it and build your own interactive games and robots. Liam uses microbit in his Tobbie II hexapod robot, and programs it using Microsoft’s MakeCode platform. To expand what he can do with it,…