How to build a robot lesson 1 - LED display

Why
To build a robot from scratch, you will first need to learn how to create programs and load them onto the brain of your robot, the microbit.
What
In this lesson you will learn how to create your first program for the microbit and simulate it in Microsoft MakeCode. Then, you will learn how to download the program onto the microbit to run it in real life.
How
We believe the best way to learn is by doing. You will create a new project in Microsoft MakeCode. Before you download it to the microbit, you will use the simulator build into MakeCode to test that it works as expected.
The Lesson

What you will need for this activity:
1. A laptop, desktop, or chromebook
2. An internet connection
3. A Microbit v2
4. USB cable to connect microbit to
computer

Instructions

1. Watch the short lesson video above.

2. Signup to get the lesson challenge guide.

3. Open https://makecode.microbit.org/
4. Click on the purple New Project rectangle image to create a
new project.
5. Enter “show me my name” for the name of your project, then
click the green Create button.

6. Follow the instructions on the challenge guide.

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    You learn by doing

    The Solution

    If you get stuck on the challenge, the solution is available on the second half of the challenge guide above.

    Review

    In this lesson you learned how code microbit with Makecode. You also learned how to simulate the program in Makecode. Finally, you learned how to download the program onto the microbit using a USB cable.

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