We will experiment with a very easy to use technology that is Adafruit's circuit express designed to help learn people to use sensors quickly and without too much pain.

Adafruit is a an open-source Electronics company in New York who develop products and learning support materials to enable people with all levels of knowledge to work with hardware.

Circuit Express is a new self contained product designed to make it easy to work with sensors and different forms of output.

image credit: Adafruit Learning System

see some sample projects with makecode and circuit express here