micro:bit launches in Japan
The Micro:bit Foundation aims to deliver BBC micro:bits to 300,000
Japanese children by 2020. It will be available to schools, clubs and
families across Japan from Saturday 5 August 2017.
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BBC’s micro:bit turns out to be an excellent drone hijacking tool
In a presentation at this year's DEF CON hacking conference, Damien
Cauquil, senior security researcher at Econocom Digital Security, showed
how the pocket-sized microcomputer could be configured to sniff out
keystrokes from a wireless keyboard, and even take control of a
quadcopter drone with just some nifty programming.
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micro:bit & Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Paper Scissors, you might know it well as you might have played it
in your childhood again and again. No matter how fair it seems, this
game has drawback, which come from your hand motion speed and tricks.
Today we are going to use the Radio to play this game.
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Getting Started with the SparkFun Inventor's Kit in MicroPython and MakeCode
The SparkFun Inventor’s Kit for micro:bit Experiment Guide is your map
for navigating the waters of beginning embedded electronics, robotics
and citizen science using the micro:bit.
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Microbit-controlled radio / MP3 player
Project showing the power of David Whale’s bitio Python library. This
gives Python on a Raspberry Pi, Mac or Windows PC access to the physical
sensors on the BBC micro:bit. You can control a program on your
computer using the buttons, touch and accelerometer sensors on the
micro:bit, and use the micro:bit’s display too.
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microbit: Marco Polo
It uses two or more micro:bits, equipped with speakers or piezos, and
the objective of the game is to use one of the microbits to find other
hidden ones using a limited number of prompts, delivered by radio.
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DEFCON 25 micro:badge
Independent Badge for DEFCON 25 developed on the BBC micro:bit platform running MicroPython. A collaboration of /r/defcon.
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Software, libraries and Tools
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New MakeCode blocks: mi:node Kit
The mi:node kit is a modular, safe and easy to use group of items that
allow kids to minimize the effort required to get started with IoT
learning with micro:bit.
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microBit.js
A JavaScript library to interact with BBC micro:bit from your web
browser, without additional software, using Web Bluetooth API.
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Hello Bitty Controller. Goodbye Bitty Game Controller!
Bitty Game Controller is an application that lets you remote control
anything connected to a micro:bit, like a Kitronik buggy, provided the
micro:bit is running the right code.
However, Bitty Game Controller has been withdrawn from the Google Play
store and will soon also be withdrawn from the Apple App store. Don't
despair though!
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BlockyTalkyBLE
BlockyTalkyBLE makes it easy to connect AppInventor mobile phone apps with the BBC micro:bit wirelessly over Bluetooth.
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Defcon - Weaponizing the BBC Micro:Bit:
Slides and Source code
Micropython based firmware and a set of tools allowing security researchers to:
- niff, receive and send data over Nordic's Enhanced ShockBurst protocol (ESB)
- sniff, receive and send data over Nordic' ShockBurst protocol (SB)
- sniff, receive and send data over Bluetooth Smart Link Layer
- sniff raw 2.4GHz GFSK demodulated data
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Upcoming Events
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August 17th, Code and play with micro:bits at Walker Library - Newcastle, UK
August 21st, Interactive LED Art with BBC micro:bit - Congleton, UK
August 24th, Dudley Libraries Animal Agents - micro:bits... - Stourbridge, UK
August 26th, micro:bit Workshop For Youth - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
August 31st, CodeJam: micro:bits with Code Club - Bangor, UK
September 6th, Tutorial micro:bit - Roma - Rome, Italy
September 12th, An introduction to the BBC micro:Bit - Manchester, UK
November 18th, Fun with the micro:bit - Oak Ridge, USA
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