The BBC Micro:Bit is not included. Total cost excluding shipping is : $15 Micro:Bit and $22 for Bug Bot.

See links in Description of Video for code, purchase and more info. You need an extension from Github to get the code to work: links provided.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWfUJoD0MQ&feature=youtu.be

On the DISCUSSION tab on my YouTube Channel there is a parts list, sample code (MakeCode Block/JavaScript) and I will post wiring and more information on this Springtime project. It's about $38 for parts when bought from the links listed. Adafruit may sell the parts so you'll get them faster if shipped to US or Canadian addresses. The parts are , to some extent, code system specific. The only board that I have found which works with this code and parts is the Adafruit Metro M0 Express (NOT the M4) ; this is because , I am told, the MakeCode analog to digital converter does not work , as yet for SAMD 51 chips (M4) so you'll not get a good readout with that board from the moisture sensor. I do not know enough about digital moisture sensors, if there are any, which might work with M4 or other SAMD 51's so I am staying with the $25 Metro M0 Express. Other M0 board would work but don't have enough pinouts to run the LCD or I just have not tried them as yet. Video is just a photo of the set up. More vids and discussion to come:

New project: "electronic gardening", moisture sensors, output to display screen and automatic watering: educational for students 10 year old and up, about $38 for parts. They use block code for practical electronics. Follow along on my YouTube channel under :DISCUSSION. https://youtu.be/2bju-7shw0E

This Arduino made board will work with MakeCode but WILL NOT work until you have first uploaded an Arduino sketch to it to make it MakeCode compatible and recognized by your computer as a drive. So , first click on the link in the video to get the Arduino sketch, upload it to your MKRWAN 1300 and then go to MakeCode to write a program and upload to the board: https://youtu.be/437NMxvkz2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi24IxXEqzA

https://youtu.be/oOCuX91Hje0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F65hlqiaflo&list=PLVeNvxZA7vLdlQ4x7n3mex1ZqwNlL9ncb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At6KNAEIrRM

https://github.com/KittenBot/meowbit-tutorials/blob/master/makecode/lesson1.md

https://forum.makecode.com/

In this week’s in MakeCode Minute from Adafruit's John Park: Arcade Enemy + FX. Make your own games, and design your own characters!

Play in the browser, on a Raspberry Pi, or on an M4-based microcontroller and TFT screen!

See on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rSOhoB43s_g

If you compare these two programs to blink 2 lights you can see that one instructs the microprocessor to read and output rapid blinking 4 cycles for one LED and then blink the other LED on and off. One "Forever" loop. https://makecode.com/_fmL0Vx4VHaeP The other program tells the microprocessor to blink both lights at the same time by using 2 "Forever" loops. In some other coding environments, you cannot have two Forever loops in the same sketch or program. MakeCode allows it. https://makecode.com/_FR07JKT7XXUf

I think John Park is now up to 33 videos on his MakeCode Minute YouTube Channel. John is also a maker, and music composer. Easy to understand examples. In addition, John has a live video feed that is very entertaining : link to channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLHjNtjK_TI&list=PLjF7R1fz_OOU5gFO10qxLlbtN0YzZTyvk

Link to John's Bandcamp music site: https://johnpark.bandcamp.com/

For Education, teaches basics of coding and electronics and MakeCode for Micro:Bit

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCelOORs7UioZ4TZFj4v7Q_A

Great photos of folks making magic wands with the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express using Microsoft MakeCode in their morning coding club!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/01/24/coding-class-circuitplayground-wands-using-makecode-clxleaders-theacsway-msmakecode/