🚁The helicopter blades start spinning when you lift the helicopter. 🚁 When the #microbit detects that P0 is released, a #geekservo starts turning. When you put it down, P0 is pressed again and the spinning stops. Inspired by this video of Daniele Benedettelli: youtu.be/T_JkQybZT0c

I gave the #Scratch #microbit Radio Extension made by Robert Bilsland (🦋@bob.bilsland.me.uk🦋) a try. Works pretty well. My micro:bit Lego robot is coded in MakeCode to react to certain📻 messages. I control the robot using my keyboard, while a micro:bit connected to my Scratch project sends 📻 messages.

🤖#microbit battle bots... 🤖 That was what these kids really wanted to make. After a lot of coding and quite some bug fixing it was finally time to test their robots. They made code for two micro:bits, for the game controller of @kitronik and for their robot's wuKong board.

#ScrappyCircuits meets #Lego and the #microbit Fun game made by a kid during my workshops in Leiden a couple of weeks ago. A marble with aluminium foil around it closes the circuit when it touches both paperclips in the cardboard cup.

When I started teaching #ScratchJr I never expected that you can make a space game, a jump game, a hide and seek game, a maze game, a quiz, a memory game and a frogger game with this app. The games in my video are inspired by: youtu.be/i-qsKTE0iKQ youtu.be/sJOIVGN3rKI

RoboCup is coming to the Netherlands and I'll be there. While advanced autonomous robots compete in Eindhoven, I'll show visitors all kinds of funny, easy to make #microbit robots. More info: 2024.robocup.org and makerdays.nl/makers/ Teaser: youtu.be/teym856dIRU

I had a lot of fun last week displaying my #microbit #LEGO robots at the Science festival of #Robocup2024. Many visitors were excited to see that kids can make funny robots with the micro:bit and geekservos. Here are some photos and a short video of my booth.⬇️

🌲🌲Dancing tree and more... Some very creative dancers were created by kids in Delft and Rijswijk last week. Made with #Lego, the #microbit and #geekservos.

Here are some more #LEGO Wobblebots, powered by the #microbit. Made by kids at a school in Rijswijk. I give them the building instructions you can see at the end of this video. Then they can use that basic mechanism to make their own funny wobblebot.

#ScrappyCircuits meets #Lego and the #microbit (again). Fun games made by kids during my workshops last week. A marble with aluminium foil and conductive tape around it closes the circuit when it touches both paperclips in the cardboard cup.

🌨️Let it snow! 🌨️ ☃️🎄☃️🎄☃️ Two cool Christmas projects made by kids last week (by two boys who are both called Lucas). The first one is made in #ScratchJr and the second one in #Scratch. 🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄

Chain reactions... Inspired by videos from Ekuwah Mends Moses 🇬🇭🇺🇸 and Baker STEMlab. Thanks for sharing these fun activities!

🏀LEGO GBC meets micro:bit!🏀 Inspired by many videos of GBCs all over the internet, I designed one that uses geekservos of @Elecfreaks, a servo board and micro:bits. First GBC in this video is made by me, with design help from C. Graveland, the others are made by kids.

🎠Good start of a my Creative with code and Lego courses. Kids at E.L.S. in Leiden made cool merry-go-rounds yesterday.🎠 #microbit #geekservo #simpleservoboard

💃🕺Dancing robots, made by kids at E.L.S. in Leiden (except the second one).🕺💃 Furthermore, I brought the Space Robot from the #LEGO Creator series to life using the #microbit and geekservos and the wuKong board of @Elecfreaks. See this YT video: youtu.be/PNYZMcmNi6w

Kids love coding with ScratchJr, but unfortunately the chromebook app crashes quite often. I asked some kids to try this website and so far their experience is good, although it lacks autosave and "when clicked" doesn't work in the big screen mode. codejr.org/scratchjr/inde…