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Jonny Austin
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CTPO at Micro:bit Educational Foundation (microbit.org), co-founder of Makespace Cambridge (makespace.org), Feminist sea shanty techhand (auntieshanty.org). Sometimes t-shirt designer.
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Also if you know anyone with V1s sitting idle you can encourage them to update the firmware for web USB support and then checkout the teaching resources (microbit.org/teach) to help them get started - we still see lots of great V1 usage and it’s still supported! microbit.org/get-started/...
micro:bit teach
Everything teachers need to inspire their students
microbit.org
Sadly not zero (yet!), but check out some of the usage stats & teacher confidence numbers from rollouts/programmes: 90% or more teachers said they were confident or very confident to use their learning and the materials provided with their students. (Consolidated research from several projects)
micro:bit teach
Everything teachers need to inspire their students
microbit.org
10 million micro:bits is a nice number of micro:bits 🎉🌏

🔗 microbit.org/news/2024-12... has great stats on impact and goals for @microbit.org

Cheers to the awesome people and partners who have got us off to this excellent start. 🚀
Celebrating 10 million micro:bits around the world
Micro:bit Educational Foundation's 2024 highlights
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I missed these when JLCPCB announced it - so as I'm late to the party, would love to see creative and beautiful PCBs people have made with it (or similar services) jlcpcb.com/blog/multi-c...
Hello! I am Jonny and I try to learn stuff and make things that other people can use to make things and learn stuff. Recently: micro:bit, past: MakeSpace Cambridge. Love creative tech and problem solving. Have a physical keyboard on my phone. I “skipped” Twitter/X so I’m a social media newbie.
Ah, shame - I am here for edu track day only but I’ll give you a shout if I end up in the “conference fringes” on Monday.
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💫Excited to see the Micro:bit Educational Foundation launch CreateAI today on #WorldChildrensDay!

🎉 Use movement data with micro:bit to train a machine learning model and bring AI to life in code.

Find out more: microbit.org/news/2024-11...

#Microbit #CreateAI #EdChatIE
https://microbit.org/news/2024-11-2…
@carlosperate.bsky.social just joined and would make a great addition!
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My first day here on BlueSky & I’m thrilled to share something really exciting we’ve been working on!

✨ CreateAI ✨
A hands-on tool to explore and create AI with #microbit. Train ML models with movement data & bring them to life with code!

👉 Learn more: microbit.org/news/2024-11...
#AI #ML #EdTech
The Micro:bit Educational Foundation just launched micro:bit #CreateAI 🎉! microbit.org/ai/. I love it for playful, physical & creative learning about ML. Use movement data to train/test a model, then use that model in #MakeCode to make an AI thing! Mad excited to see what people make! #microbit
micro:bit and AI
Dive deeper into micro:bit CreateAI
microbit.org
I’m going to be at PyCon AU this Friday for the education track. Give me a shout if you’re going to be there and want to talk #microbit or #python. Looking forward to a fantastic track of talks. #pyconau
www.youtube.com/watch?v=asji... This is such a beautiful and clever solution by @loretod.bsky.social, Bill Siever and PrintLab. I love that the micro:bit gets to go inside and play a part. For others that still love text see Loreto's blog www.zeroday.camp/empowering-a... #accessibility #microbit
Micro:bit Assistive Technology Dual Switch | Tap
YouTube video by PrintLab
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There are fun days at work, then there are "building a magic-wand controlled pumpkin" days at work :D
That sounds excellent, we'd be really eager to learn about whether there are ways the product could change to help with this too. I'll DM you so we can have a chat :)
The 'images' section in 'advanced' has a neat `show image` block.
#MakeCode has a built-in 400ms delay in `basic➡️show leds` and `show icon`, but it's configurable with `images➡️show image`. Plus images can be in arrays... enough to make your heart beat faster.
#microbit #faveblocks #TeamCompSci
I think my favourite change in the 2024 #MakeCode release for #microbit is one of the tiniest: make the border colour lighter/stand-out when blocks of the same colour are nested. Makes reading complex block maths so much easier 😃. All the changes at makecode.com/blog/microbi... #TeamCompSci
Any folks in #TeamCompSci tried using the #microbit
Python Editor for more general #Python teaching, rather than "micro:bit first" stuff? With the simulator and the REPL you've got a browser-based REPL and some interesting possible inputs. Works with micro:bit Classroom too.
This week, a more playful one for the #microbit #faveblocks: I love the "free fall" gesture (click on 'shake' dropdown). This micro:bit is deploying an umbrella as a parachute when it is falling ☂️🪂. (Under the hood this just checks the magnitude of acceleration is below a threshold.) #TeamCompSci
Don't suppose you're able to make the files for this lovely #microbit case available? I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who would like to print a few for themselves #TeamCompSci
My family stumbled across this activity on a recent visit and absolutely loved it. Awesome to hear the micro:bit sounds put to playful use! Thanks for sharing the amazing detail behind it.
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The lovely folks at the V&A Museum asked me to design an activity for kids (and their parents) that tied in with their 'Tropical Modernism' exhibition and had a digital component. It's running every Wed/Thur/Fri in the main museum. I went to do it yesterday with the 6yo and 3yo 🧵
This week, `map`: Great for scaling physical input into the right ranges for micro:bit output - here's a super simple spirit level. Ideal if the maths/scaling part might be a distraction from the lesson and you want to focus more on the making or the output. #microbit #faveblocks.