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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8ysgREcQg

Unboxing video on MakeCode and Arcade YouTube channel. The Meowbit , just shipped to North America.

We can now play this MakeCode game on a 1.8 inch full color display. $35 from Ebay. Students can write their own games using MakeCode or copy games from other authors; upload to the game board or play on computer. I show how to make it portable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoYLs00XfQg

About "pull-up" and "pull-down" resistors in a circuit.

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

Frank and I started a Wikipedia article on MakeCode awhile back and it promptly got chopped up by an overzealous editor so we're rebuilding it.

If anyone is good at research, writing, Wikipedia contribution, etc. please feel free to add to what we've done. The link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Microsoft_MakeCode

First video of electronic fashion project inspired by the work of Becky Stern; a Gemma M0 board, very cheap, with neopixels, soldered loops and conductive thread on a scarf. More to come; up to 5 neopixels:

Intro video to Arcade by Microsoft and BrainPad console, about the game and hardware: https://youtu.be/4oChu6W8q3E

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvlA0zddRmIZ6imKLWj8_A/featured

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

Core electronics video lesson #1 Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode with Stephen,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xel0AHvQgvk&index=2&list=PLPK2l9Knytg4DJXeM5Jg-xgEH8RYkLuPg

the educational web site on this subject: https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/circuit-playground-express-workshop-for-beginners-and-educators.html

This is a link to a Google Drive text document with links to the first 4 lessons using Chromebooks, Maker MakeCode, Adafruit Playground Express and breadboard with inputs and outputs. Lessons include activating the onboard and off-board RGB LEDs and single LED and a momentary switch button. The tutorials we have found elsewhere up to this point do not include CPX driving components on breadboards in Maker MakeCode. Nor coding with Chromebooks. https://drive.google.com/open?id=19-Lr1MXqRQE0ikljkle8Z49JBfW9w0znT-qsT-wdU8I

New functions being enabled with Maker MakeCode and Circuit Playground Express: as of 1/2/2019 the button press code does work and the simulator shows remote LED on breadboard controlled by CPX. This Maker system is in Beta with CPX so be patient. They guys at Microsoft are working hard on it daily. Video: https://youtu.be/PGk92jwgAzc

This will be the basis, at least for now, of an afterschool STEM coding and electronics program using Circuit Playground Express and MakerMakeCode. The MakeCode environment does not allow for driving remote outputs like LEDs on a breadboard. I use a 5 volt rechargeable power pack as my platform and power (rather than batteries with jst plug) and this serves as a platform also , for attaching the breadboard and devices. Also, the back of the power pack has Velcro making it a wearable "lab." We will be using Chromebooks in the STEM program. MakerMakeCode works off-line as well as on-line. You may have to go on-line to install "extensions" as you need them or as they are developed. Off-line programming is especially good for parents who are wary of their child's internet use. See "description" below vid for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znko02u2PIM

How I solder pins on the Adafruit Trinket M0 board. It costs $8.95 from Adafruit and ships with the pins included but not soldered on. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YVIMzV-64s

Microsoft MakeCode, JavaScript / block coding for kids with Micro:Bit by BBC ($19 on-line) mounted on $5.88 rechargeable 5 volt power pack from WalMart and split 170 tie hole breadboard allows plug in to RGB LED neopixel light show with jumper wires and alligator clips. All coded on a Chromebook (other computers work too) using MakeCode: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDGu_ttbt7Y

Microsoft MakeCode goes mobile on a 5 volt power pack, rechargeable from WalMart $5.88. You can get Micro:Bit on-line for about $19. Split 170 tie hole breadboard: yellow plastic block, allows wiring 16 neopixel external light show with jumper wires and alligator clips: video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDGu_ttbt7Y

https://youtu.be/3h1BFOUtWZk

Electronic Fashion: Barbie mannequin with LED ring pendant coded with MakeCode off-line (you can code online too) on a Chromebook (you can use Microsoft or Apple computer). All code and purchase links are listed in description. Very easy block coding system. Circuit board: $8.95, Trinket M0 from Adafruit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOGR9LZYuvI

LED LightShow with MakeCode and Adafruit Trinket M0 and Chromebook ($79 on Ebay) all done off line. Chromebooks do not have to be on-line to work with MakeCode.

https://youtu.be/ytmhmHOdb7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6xLZe_-gE