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micro:bits come loaded with a demo program that’s great for taking them out of their retail box, plugging in a battery and passing them around the group.
but later, in smaller break-out sessions, the question becomes: we’ve seen what the people who make these boards make it do, but that’s not what we need for our game. how do we make it do what we want it to do.
this 8-14 year old workshop skewed younger both days, so a lot of the wonder was the kids simply selecting an icon in scratch on my computer, and then seeing that light up on the board’s 5x5 LED matrix.
but also, like here, sometimes the wonder was seeing something i’d prepared earlier, and grokking a piece of the “grown up” code that animated the LED strips.
original photo credit: shamil ahmed
