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Automatic Lighting
This longer-duration activity involves prototyping a low-power lighting system. It could be used in an off-timetable workshop or across a series of lessons.
Students are challenged to work through the whole design process, and to place a micro-controller (in this case a BBC micro:bit) at the centre of the design.
Students need to choose input devices to connect to the micro:bit, allowing it to change the output (an LED) depending on lighting conditions. The brief can be amended to reflect the input devices available in each school.
Some sample code in each of three programming environments - Blockly, Touch Develop and Code Kingdoms (JavaScript) - is provided, both in classroom resources and via the micro:bit live website.
An extension activity looks at protection of LEDs using resistors, and involves simple calculations using Ohm's Law.
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