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I helped test the microbit and I wrote a small program for pedagogical purposes. The hardware was very neat and I liked the leds on the back. Originally there

I helped test the microbit and I wrote a small program for pedagogical purposes. The hardware was very neat and I liked the leds on the back. Originally there was going to be a coin cell battery but they removed it because children might eat it. Also there is a Bluetooth radio on the microbit but the runtime was 12k and there wasn't enough space to load micropython and Bluetooth at the same time . A link to the example is here https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/blob/master/examples/counter.py https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/blob/master/examp... .

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mbrookes 10y ago
In case anyone gets the impression that bluetooth is completely unavailable, you can use Espruino (JS) http://www.espruino.com/MicroBit http://www.espruino.com/MicroBit, Microsoft's http://codethemicrobit.com http://codethemicrobit.com (scratch-like drag and drop), or C / C++ amongst others, including bluetooth access to the compass and accelerometer. Here's a rundown: https://blog.bluetooth.com/developing-applications-bbc-microbit https://blog.bluetooth.com/developing-applications-bbc-micro...
askvictor 10y ago
There is a radio module for Micropython that allows devices to communicate with each other without the full Bluetooth stack
- chrismartin 10y ago
  ...and you can use it to build multiplayer games! https://github.com/c-mart/microbit/blob/master/space_shoot_multiplayer.py https://github.com/c-mart/microbit/blob/master/space_shoot_m...