My Microbit Challenge
As this term's coding classes and clubs come to an end, I would like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and all the very best for 2022. Earlier in…
Coding Motors
Sorting out the components for next week's electronics lessons. We'll be learning about motor control which opens up a whole world of possibilities. Previous projects that have come out of…
The Electronics Course Returns
There's an exciting new course in town! This one is all about electronics and kicks off at Bishop Wordsworth School after the half term break. Open to all who have…
New and Popular After School Clubs
As the new school year begins, First Coding is getting ready to run new and familiar coding workshops. The popular Scratch and Python workshops return once again but there are…
Coding Kits Update
First Coding would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped test the Micro:bit kits we're developing. Whether you tested the kits to destruction, tried to find…
Microbit Adventurers
A new class of young Microbit adventurers kicked off today with some great little animations using the block editor.
Meeting Microbit
I was fortunate enough to talk with the people at Microbit whilst attending the Bett Show this weekend. They were really surprised at some of the projects that have come out of First Coding's…
Water Quality Monitoring
In today's sessions we were looking at how we could use the Microbit to measure water quality. One idea was to use the light sensor, shining a light through the…
The Motor Control Kit
The school talks I recently gave on electronic toy hacking highlighted a problem that motor control for the Raspberry Pi and Microbit could be made a great deal simpler (and…
The Automatic Plant Waterer
A pupil, bored with being tasked with watering his grandma's plants whilst she's on holiday, used his Microbit lessons to build an automatic plant watering system. The water pump is…