Lesson 05 – RGB LED Introduction An RGB LED is a type of LED. It can emit light with three different colors: red, green and blue. In this experiment, we are going to make an RGB LED gradually shift its light between the three different colors. What you need micro:bit board Micro USB Cable micro:bit […]
Lesson 04 Photocell Introduction A photocell is a kind of special resistor based on internal photoelectric effect. Its resistant value is opposite to the brightness of light. Brighter light leads to lower resistant value and in turn varies the voltage that passes through. Usually a photocell is the core component of a photoswitch. In the […]
Lesson 03 Trimpot Introduction Trimpot or potentiometer is a kind of common pressure adjustment components. In the following experiment, we are going to read the output voltage on the trimpot and display it using the nicro:bit 5*5 LED matrix display with a bar graph representation. Component List micro:bit board Micro USB Cable Pi Supplymicro:bit breadboard […]
Lesson 02 – Button Introduction In the first lesson, we learned how to control 2 LEDs and make them flash alternatively. In this Lesson we are going to use a tactile button to control the LED flash. That means when we press and hold down the button, the two LEDs will flash alternatively. When the […]
Lesson 01 – LED Introduction In this lesson we are going to be taking a look at the LED (light emitting diode), which are used in almost every application in consumer electronics. In this lesson we are going to use the BBC micro:bit to make two LEDs flash, alternate. What you need micro:bit board Micro […]
Getting Started with Pi Supply micro:bit Tinker Kit The Pi Supply micro:bit Tinker Kit is an easy to use prototyping kit for the micro:bit that uses a simple plug n play system. The kit allows you to focus more on the programming techniques without the need to build complex circuitry with each module ready to […]
Getting Started with Pi Supply micro:bit Starter Kit Pi Supply BBC micro:bit Starter Kit is designed for beginners who want to get started learning the basic fundamentals of electronic circuits and programming with the BBC micro:bit development board. This kit comes with some of the basic electronic components such as LEDs, buttons, buzzers, temperature sensor, […]
Raspberry Pi 4 Pinout Not only is the Raspberry Pi 4 bursting with new hardware features but under the hood there are some extra GPIO functions to make life a bit easier, allowing users to expand their peripherals to their projects without requiring additional hardware 🙂 In particular there are a bunch of extra I2C, […]
Raspberry Pi 4 Hardware Specs & Comparison Always expect the unexpected – Raspberry Pi foundation have today (June 24th 2019) released the latest Raspberry Pi 4 despite many sources adamant it will not be released until 2020. So whats new then? Well most of us would have guessed a new smaller chip being used since […]
The PiJuice is a great addition to any project, and now even more so since we have shrunk down the PiJuice HAT into a pHAT form factor to suit the Raspberry Pi Zero. Keeping all the same functionality of the HAT but excluding some buttons, headers etc we also added a neat battery connector allowing […]