Thursday, November 8, 2018

MicroBit Alarm

To create an alarm device using the MicroBit's sensor(s) I partnered with Marianna (after successfully stabbing a balloon via MicroBit) with to sort out how to make an alarm device with our two combined MicroBits.

We had a head start using some of the blocks from the balloon pop code that outlined how our MicroBits would talk to each other. After trying out the different light, sliders, sound and water sensors we decided on using the light sensor to make an alarm that could be triggered by opening a drawer or box.

Mariana's MicroBit would be the "sensor" and mine would be the alarm/recorder. Using the speaker add on for my microbit I wrote a code that would play a sound when the light sensor on the other MicroBit triggered a radio message. I also added a block of code that kept track(roughly) of how long the box/drawer had been open.



There were/are a few bugs like the LED images not reseting and sometimes a line of code will not run completely. We tried inserting some "pause" lines but the bugs weren't gone completely. 


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