Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Parts
- Using Alligator Clips
- Solar Board Reference
- Project 1 – Sun Finder
- Project 2 – Garden Light
- Project 3 – Self Charging Cooling Fan
- The BBC micro:bit
- Getting Code to Run on the micro:bit
- Project 4 – Adding an Energy Meter
- Project 5 – Energy Logger
- Connecting Up
- Code for the Energy Logger (MakeCode)
- How it works
- Connecting to Your PC
- Pairing Your micro:bit With MakeCode
- Showing the Device Console Graph
- Capturing Data From a Charge and Discharge Cycle
- Downloading Data
- Getting Data into a Spreadsheet Program
- Analysing the Data
- Graphing the Data
- Results
- Understanding the Data
- Understanding Duty Cycle
- How the Solar Store Works
- Project 6 – Intelligent Cooling Fan
- Troubleshooting
- About the Author
- Learning
- Monk Makes Kits
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Whale is an embedded software engineer and a STEM ambassador who
volunteers in schools in the UK. He has been an active member of the micro:bit
community since its inception. He contributed to the original BBC micro:bit project,
advising The IET and BBC and helping to write and deliver training courses to
teachers around the UK. He helped to form the Micro:bit Educational Foundation
and was their technical support engineer for the first 2 years, where he was given
the honorary title of 'Micro:bit Wizard'. He continues on his life-long mission to
inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists.
LEARNING
micro:bit Programming
If you want to learn more about programming the micro:bit in MicroPython, then you
should consider buying Simon Monk's Programming micro:bit: Getting Started with
MicroPython book, which is available from all major book sellers.
For some interesting project ideas, you might also like micro:bit for Mad Scientists
from NoStarch Press.
You can find out more about books by Simon Monk (the designer of this kit) at:
http://simonmonk.org or follow him on Twitter where he is @simonmonk2
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