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Get inspired to make, and share your making knowledge for good (or evil). Analog prototyping, digital tinkering, and everything in between. So brew a cup of tea. And start exploring.

Cardboard Car

When you think of motors, you’ll likely think of the motor…car! In this project, we’ll make a fun cardboard car, and say “stick” a lot.

Sunbrella

Automated protection from the sun!

Zoetrope

Make your own manual animation device. The best part? Your micro:bit will spin it for you!

Viewing Remote Data

Let’s send messages to a cloud server with the micro:bit!

Micro:bit chatroom

Create a micro:bit chatroom using the blocks in the Radio drawer!

Lightbox

LED lights look great from behind light-diffusing materials. Make a simple lightbox, powered by a micro:bit and an LED strip.

Lightsaber

In this project, we’ll create our very own lightsaber. The LED strips form the blade, and will light up whenever we swing the lightsaber! Unfortunately, you have to provide your own “PSHHHEWWW” and“WOOMM WOOMM” sound effects.

Snap the dot

Create a simple game using an LED strip, functions, and state variables. One LED will light up blue, and a red dot will bounce back and forth. Stop the red dot when it lands on the blue dot!

Bling Blink Bracelet

The flexible LED strip can transform into a colourful light bracelet when worn on the wrist. Bring it to your next dance party (or work meeting), and gesticulate wildly for some awesome flashing lights!

Timing Gates

We’re going to build a simple version of timing gates which are sensors used on some roads to determine how fast cars are travelling.

Steal Me Not

Let’s use touch sensing to create an alarm for a container! You can use this to secure your favourite snacks from your household pet. Or small child.

Night Light

Using a micro:bit, an analog light sensor, and an LED, we create an automatic night light that turns on in the dark!