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Are you and your students bored with the base Micro:bit?
Are you interested in adding LEDs, motors, and sensors? Then Hummingbird:Bit may be for you!
St Andrew's has some HummingbirdBit Premium Kits - enough for use with small groups. A big plus is that the base kits are quite affordable (1/3 the cost of the LEGO Spike Prime), and you can source extra servo motors from Jaycar, or other electronics retailers.
Getting Started with Hummingbird Bit
Getting Started with Hummingbird Bit
The Birdbrain Technologies website is your go-to portal for programming and mechanism build videos, as well as a wealth of activity ideas for classroom integration. https://learn.birdbraintechnologies.com/hummingbirdbit/. The embedded videos on the site will play on any device.
For classroom use in a Windows environment, I would recommend programming Hummingbird with Microsoft MakeCode. This requires the (simple) installation of the relevant Hummingbird extension - https://learn.birdbraintechnologies.com/hummingbirdbit/program/.
The step-by step tutorials on the website are fantastic.
Activity Ideas
Activity Ideas
For more, see https://learn.birdbraintechnologies.com/hummingbirdbit/projects/.
Musical Integration
Robot Petting Zoo
Robot Characters
Animated Story Scenes
Human Anatomy Model
Robot Flower Garden
Coding Cards
Coding Cards
Coding-Cards- Hummingbird makecode.pdfHummingbird Resource Guides
Hummingbird Resource Guides
Hummingbird-Blocks-MakeCode.pdfTroubleshooting-Cards-MakeCode.pdfGoogle Sites
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