Traffic Lights

Introduction:

Traffic lights are great for developing sequencing skills. Let students work in pairs to create their own working traffic lights with this dinky add-on from Kitronik which can be bought here and to which you attach your microbit using small nuts/bolts:

https://www.kitronik.co.uk/5642-stopbit-traffic-light-for-bbc-microbit.html

How-to videos:

• Video 1: overview

• Video 2: coding / starter code

• Video 3: possible tasks

Note: before proceeding to the harder task shown in the above video, you might want to explore the auto-timings task shown in some starter code below.

Starter & complete code resources:

Two button starter:

https://makecode.microbit.org/_CTY8HcHD7TiU

Three options example:

https://makecode.microbit.org/_gFvVPgPWeEek

Four options example:

https://makecode.microbit.org/_5crJeC1Xocg1

Timings starter:

https://makecode.microbit.org/_7HmUeKHuwXyH

Button step through starter:

https://makecode.microbit.org/_MgaUzt8AWd4C

Button step through complete:

https://makecode.microbit.org/_55w9WwJXVPMt