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The Pimoroni touch:bit adds glowing capacitance touch to your micro:bit

November 04, 2018 • BBC microbit • button • capacitance touch

The Pimoroni touch:bit for the BBC micro:bit adds 6 illuminated capacitance touch pads to your micro:bit. It has support for both makecode.com and MicroPython.

Extend the Kitronik Inventors Kit for the BBC micro:bit With the Kitronik Noise and ZIP LEDs Packs

October 09, 2018 • amplifier • audio • audio fx • BBC microbit • eq • inventors kit • kitronik • LEDs • micro:bit • microbit • microbit accessories • Neopixels • sound effects • ZIP LEDs

Add more micro:bit projects to your Kitronik Inventors Kit, with these cool noise and lighting packs! Build the micro:bit guitar project and learn to control individual lights and colours with code.

5 Useful Tips For Your BBC micro:bit

September 24, 2018 • BBC micro:bit • Coding • MakeCode • micro:bit • microbit • microbit tips • MicroPython • Q&A

Here's five useful things we've learned about the humble micro:bit..

The Adafruit Crickit is Here!

September 18, 2018 • Adafruit • CircuitPython • crickit • makecode • MicroPython • robotics • robots

Expand the functionality of your micro:bit, Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, and Feather with the Crickit! Add additional simple sensors, motors. servos, multicoloured LEDS, speakers, switches, capacitive touch and more, while still leaving lots of pins free for other devices!

Waveshare 1.8" TFT Screen for the BBC micro:bit

September 10, 2018 • makecode • micro:bit accessories • new products • screen • tft • waveshare

This micro:bit colour screen is great for displaying details that won't fit on the mono 5x5 LED matrix - just insert the micro:bit into the slot with no messy wiring required.Collect information from other micro:bits and create live colour displays or graphs!

The 1.8" TFT has a 160x128 pixel resolution in 65,000 colours using the ST7735S controller, and can store data in an onboard display cache, before writing to the screen.