CH7-B - Four Patterns V2

We'll use Maker Tape to connect the four Buttons and the LED to the Bit Board on a LEGO baseplate.

If you use a larger baseplate you can space out your your components a bit more, but if you're using a small one pay close attention to the tape paths as there isn't room for deviation on a 16x8 baseplate.

Connect LEDs to Pin 1, Pin 2, Pin 3, and Pin 4. Connect Buttons to Pin 5, Pin 6, Pin 7, and Pin 8.

And of course we'll connect the Ground (GND) sides of each component to Ground 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.

While the LED has Polarity our Button does not. If you connect it the other way around it will still work fine. Not all components have Polarity.

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 Four Patterns V2 program: https://makecode.microbit.org/_gWfWw2FvP...

We've written four different functions and each can be called by pressing a specific button.

We've seen these functions before (in a previous chapter) so they are not new, but now we've got them all together in one single program.

This version does not require holding the button down. We use the while loop to keep the function running until the value named runValue changes, which only happens if a button is pressed.

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.

When you press a button a corresponding function will run. You'll get a different light show depending on the button you press!

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/LXTZHnrCIRk