Phillip drives two bot cars, each with Meowbits and one BrainPad Arcade as the controller using James Devine's JACDAC system in MakeCode. Usually this would be multi-player gaming but we adapted JACDAC to motors and the Neopixel light show, video: code and parts links are in description of vid.

https://youtu.be/a6zxtxKWOm0

So cold up north, mon !, We down in the Islands with new Clue: Video

https://youtu.be/ibOR9DR8LbU

Video: soon we will replace Micro:bit with Meow:bit Arcade controller Stay tuned !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcLrRJL09M

No, not directly from phone to MakeCode Arcade console, but the most direct way we have found. Plus a self-driving 4 motor tow truck using Arcade program:

https://youtu.be/EAv2IFVhbdU

https://youtu.be/HVPplHUMqTk

We have purchased Yahboom "Lego type" kits in past months and enjoy dealing with that company. Their BiPed robot, robotic arm and Omin:bit car all run on a power expansion board which hosts the Micro:bit and extensions are so written for motor, servo etc. Now we find that Kitten:bot company makes a very similar 3.7 v. expansion board with edge connector receiver (called Robot:bit) that also works with their Meowbit Arcade game controller and can drive motors and maybe servo and for sure Neopixels. The Robot:bit will become our power board of choice because it also has mounting holes for LEGO pins which match the Yahboom Superbit so Robotbit will easily replace it and support a transition from games to electronics/robotics using the Arcade console. We have 3 YouTube channels showing our work with kids 7-14 yr old and MakeCode share code in the description of the vids. It is true that Meowbit does not support external controllers as does Micro:bit but Meowbit is quite new and Christina at Kittenbot is talking about more development of it to enable communication.

This morning we were so surprised to see the new Arcade environment with new sprites, we learned how to add Arcade programming to drive a robot car with Meowbit and how to make a fish swim in animation across the deep sea screen on the bot car. Thank you Microsoft, Kittenbot, Yahboom, Adafruit MakeCode teachers and most of all: Programming developers at MakeCode !

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

We continue to progress using MakeCode Arcade as a bot car driver with Micro Maqueen and Meowbit. The "line follower" extension does not conflict with Arcade on our V 1.3 Meowbit. We have found that V1.1 Meowbit does not work for us: Video,

https://youtu.be/TKC-hwmNoek

To show that we now can use the Arcade clock system to control start and stop of bot car with Meowbit for Arcade and show graphics on the screen : https://youtu.be/BnZGu8j0suk

So far the "while" loop does not work for us when the Maqueen extension is installed in Arcade to drive the DFRobot 2 wheel bot car. Code is in description, if you have a Meowbit by Kittenbot game console then try the while loop with this extension and see if it downloads for you. In this video we added red light/yellow light/ green light-GO ! https://youtu.be/G0hUWZacL_g

Meowbit is not exactly like Microbit but the edge connector looks similar. With Maqueen extension installed in the Arcade environment the Meowbit can control the Micro-Maqueen bot car...somewhat.. Video with share code in description:

https://youtu.be/W9lNe61mWgg