MICRO BIT WORKSHOP at OS Petra Kresimira IV., Sibenik 

The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized codeable computer with motion detection, a built-in compass and Bluetooth technology, and microbits can also communicate with each other by radio communication.  They were given  for free to every child in the 7th grade or equivalent across the UK in 2016.  Croatian entrepreneurs have decided to raise money and donate microbits to Croatian schools and associations to encourage students to engage in STEM and entrepreneurship .

We showed  a few simple examples of microbit programming. We turned three common kid games  into microbits. One is the game of Stone, Scissors, Paper, the second game is Sinking  and the third game is Association.

Stone Scissors Paper

When shaking the microbits we will get one of three shapes that remind you of stone, scissors or paper. The stone wins the scissors, the scissors overcome the paper, and the paper wins the stone. If the signs are the same  nobody wins .

Sinking

All players have microbits with the same program but only one hunts. You can choose a number by pressing the A button. The hunter searches the numbers with his microbit. When you have a cross on the microbite you lose the game. The last one wins.

 Association

 A variety of words are randomly loaded into the microbits. The one who reads them must explain them until the listener guesses.

.Banana Plays is a  funny experiment .

We connect microbit to a small microphone . We connect the banana to the microbits pin. When we touch the banana, she is conducting microphone sound.

We also have mbot robots to learn programming . They have different sensors such as ultrasonic sensor, line monitoring sensor, infrared sensor . We showed interaction between two robots  through sensors.

 

Finally, the students have to write a small microbit program for light measurement.