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
USING ALLIGATOR CLIPS
When using the alligator clips to connect your micro:bit to the MonkMakes boards,
you have to be a bit careful how you connect the clips to ensure you get a good
connection. The best way is to connect the clips vertically, as show below:
Connecting the alligator clips like this prevents any accidental connections between
the large connectors with the holes in and the much smaller connectors (gold lines
in the photo above).
The colour of the wires is not important to the functioning of the circuits you build,
but you will find it useful to use a colour scheme in your projects so that it is more
obvious how the circuit is wired. We suggest the following general scheme:
Black – for 0V (GND – short for ground) connections
Red – for 3V (power) connections
Yellow – for 10V (solar power) connections
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