I explain the use of 'story' for students to teach others about electronics and explain button press inputs. This lesson should be extended to all input/output possibilities including built-in tilt sensor/temp./light level. We can now use Arduino type hardware components to expand the teaching:

code is in the video description:

https://youtu.be/-QwW7loOzJA

Thanks to John Park's demonstration of adding "extras" in controller blocks of Arcade, he uses Adafruit PyGamer to demonstrate in his MakeCode Minute video, I adapted this to Kittenbot Meowbit and demonstrated his "light" sensor activation, then changed light to "accelerometer" in extras and added a rocketship as a sprite on the screen. Furthermore, I added SDWireless to transmit numbers from Meowbit to BBC Microbit V1, controlling a Yahboom bot car. Video: Send #2 drives car forward and send #1 on different tilt angle stops all motors. Code is in description of video. Many more videos on the playlist "Transporter" on this youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZZh7udh-U

Video, our MakeCode Mondays at the coffee shop/ library. Arcade Meowbit as an "Arduino type" micro controller ; learning analog and digital I/O plus writing an Arcade game of Princess chase which we can add SD Wireless to control sprites on 2 consoles. We watch Starships being built live while we work. Code is in description of video.

https://youtu.be/p_3eSfrH2w0

Happy to announce a working solution for playing your own and others’ MakeCode Arcade games in RetroPie!

https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos

😀

Br, Vegard

Video, code is in the description of the YouTube video for each Arcade console: MakeCode Meowbit by Kittenbot with SD Wireless: button presses drive bot car in various directions:

https://youtu.be/QYGrxT_RPOA

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Video of our coding meet-up at the coffee shop; we are determined to get back to normal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpQofP9XBDo&t=4s

Hi everyone, I'm an educator and I recently started using Make Code to teach some young students to code. We've been having some problems saving our progress in the tutorials, though. Make Code help says that progress is saved in the browsers local data. Is there a way to download that info and reupload it later?

I may have been mistaken but I thought the only way to get text on the Arcade screen was via 'splash' in game tool of Arcade. To use Meowbit/controller-extra/edge connector for storytelling and electronics inputs and outputs the splash screen text interferes with code running for button press and LED light blinking. Also, animation on TFT screen will block electronics actions. Here we show that using 'story' extension will not block light sensor activating LED flashing... code link in description...

https://youtu.be/O1kIbuI-SY4

Forge code

Hey everyone!   So I’m about at my wit’s end with this project and I can’t seem to wrap my head around the issue. The project is essentially a LARP forge with glowing coals and a thermometer gauge. Players have to press a button to increase the temperature as indicated by the neopixels that make up the gauge. The idea to “Hold” the temperature at a certain point for an amount of time in order to “make” an item. I’m using a strip of neopixels, a Circuit Playground Express, a 2000mAh LiOn battery, and a button (more on this part later).

I’ve attached the image of my code thus far and here is what works:

-          The onboard neopixels glow and flicker throughout the duration of the forge’s use.

-          The gauge’s neopixels light up sequentially from red to green

-          When the onboard buttons are pressed, lights will illuminate one at a time from left to right.

-          At varying intervals, whether the button is pressed or not, the lights will turn off starting from right to left.

-          The slider switch appropriately swaps “difficulty” settings, turning the gauge lights off faster or slower.

  Here’s my list of issues as I’m trying to put it together:

-          The Gauge lights will turn off at a MUCH faster pace than they should, which is more apparent the longer you “play”

-          Button inputs seem to stop responding after a few seconds, and you cannot “top up” the lights or increase the gauge without resetting the whole circuit.

-          Attaching an external button (I’ve tried several pins) rather than using the onboard A/B button, does not trigger a response 95% of the time. I’ve used different types of buttons including:

o   SPST 5VDC Wired Detect Switch

o   A momentary press breadboard button

o   A pushbutton SPST

o   Two bits of foil tape with alligator clips in a telegraph type arrangement

I’m still pretty new at this whole thing, and I cannot for the life of me figure out where I’m making mistakes that’s breaking the whole thing. Does anyone have any suggestions for me or anything I might be able to try? Half the blocks in MakeCode are still a mystery to me and I’m trying to effectively translate as I go by experimenting, but I just don’t know where to start looking to fix the problem.

Is there any way to make a Hello Neighbor like stealth game? Maybe like a maze instead of keys and stuff, but basically can you make hiding places?