Micro:bit

0 Safety in the micro:bit workshop

We work like little engineers — carefully, safely and together

1 Electric circuit

A first electric circuit with a battery, wires, a resistor and an LED: what current is, why a circuit must be closed and what to do if the LED won't light.

• 1.1 Electricity detectives 8 Sept 2026 Which materials conduct electricity, and which ones stop it?
• 1.2 Breadboard lab 15 Sept 2026 A breadboard for beginners: how the holes are connected underneath, and how to build a circuit without soldering in which a push button lights an LED.

2 Introduction to the micro:bit

What a micro:bit is and what's on it: LED display, A and B buttons, compass, accelerometer, temperature sensor, pins, Bluetooth radio, speaker, microphone.

• 2.1 My first program in MakeCode 22 Sept 2026 A first micro:bit program in MakeCode: blocks, on start and forever, buttons A and B, the LED display, the simulator and copying it to the micro:bit.
• 2.2 How does our program think? 28 Sept 2026 Five small MakeCode programs for the micro:bit (greeting, heart, buttons, dice, score counter): predict, run and change one thing to see how they work.

3 Smart systems and connected devices

A smart crossroads with the micro:bit - from the LED screen to two traffic lights that talk to each other