CH2-B - LED Blink Separately

We'll use Maker Tape to connect the LEDs to the Bit Board on a LEGO baseplate.

Connect the Negative (-) sides of the LEDs to a Ground (GND) hole on the Bit Board.

Connect the Positive (+) side of the first LED to Pin 1 on the Bit Board.

Connect the Positive (+) side of the second LED to Pin 8 on the Bit Board.

You'll notice the Ground on the Bit Board (as well as the LED and other Crazy Circuits components we'll use) is color coded White.

If you've never used a micro:bit before you'll want to check out this guide: Bit Board V2 Setup and Use

We're going to load the following code for our LED Blink Separately program: https://makecode.microbit.org/_WTR1APfi3...

This code will make the LEDs blink on and off independently from each other, and at different rates.

We're using two different forever blocks in this code. One of the advantages of the micro:bit over other controllers is that it is very easy to have concurrent "forever" loops running at the same time.

Once the code is loaded it should start running immediately.

You can power the micro:bit via the USB cable you used to load the code or you can use a battery pack plugged into the Bit Board.

The LEDs will be blinking at different rates, but you can easily change that by making changes to the code and reloading your new version onto the micro:bit

Follow along with our recorded Live Stream!

You can watch the full video of us walking through this project, along with explaining and exploring the code: https://youtube.com/live/QZck9h1C3A8