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Introducing BBC micro:bit and MakeCode blocks .. with a Toy Robot Car and PC

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9 Nov 2020CPOL23 min read 10.6K   119   5  
Introduction micro:bit and hobby example. Several Remote Controls (Infrared, Bluetooth Android App, serial port PC)
In this article, you will see a short introduction to micro:bit and programming in MakeCode blocks or switch to "JavaScript/Python". V 2.0 of micro:bit announced. You will be introduced to a toy robot car (Maqueen) and ESP 32 camera as extra hardware. Use of several remote controllers are discussed: Infrared, Bluetooth with Android app, Radio with 2nd micro:bit with tilt as controller, PC C# program with serial port using BlockingCollection and reconstructing lines.

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