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<\/h2>\nActivity B –\u00a0‘Banana Keyboard’<\/h2>\n
In this project, you will build your own music player BBC micro:bit banana keyboard from household fruit.\u00a0Learn how to convert your BBC micro:bit into a music player using pins P0 and GND, earphones (or speakers), as well as crocodile clips (or spring clips). The connect fruit using pins P1 and GND.<\/p>\n
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- Activity time: 15\u00a0minutes<\/li>\n
- Difficulty level: easy<\/li>\n
- Lesson plan:\u00a0https:\/\/www.microbit.co.uk\/blocks\/lessons\/banana-keyboard\/activity<\/a><\/li>\n
- Code (Microsoft\u2005Block\u2005Editor):\u00a0https:\/\/www.microbit.co.uk\/lhpkbr<\/a><\/li>\n
- Copyright: \u00a9 Copyright 2015 BBC micro:bit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Further Reading<\/h2>\n
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- BBC micro:bit lessons & tutorials\n
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- https:\/\/www.microbit.co.uk\/teachers-and-parents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Element 14\u00a0tutorials using Microsoft Block Editor\n
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- Beginner & Intermediate skill levels<\/li>\n
- 10-45 minute durations<\/li>\n
- https:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/community\/stem-academy\/microbit\/blog\/2016\/05\/26\/10-bbc-microbit-projects-in-ten-days<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- BBC micro:bit 10 Student Classroom Pack\n
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- This pack contains 10 x BBC micro:bits, 10 x 1M anti-tangle USB cables, 10 x Battery cages and 20 x AAA Batteries.<\/li>\n
- http:\/\/cpc.farnell.com\/bbc-micro-bit\/mb224\/bbc-micro-bit-club\/dp\/ED00036<\/a><\/li>\n
- https:\/\/www.kitronik.co.uk\/5616-bbc-microbit-classroom-pack.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Activity A – ‘Musical Pencil’ Graphite (the drawing bit of a pencil) conducts electricity but has quite high resistance, so can be used to make a simple variable resistor. Resistance is affected by weight, thickness and length of line. We measure this change in resistance as a number and use this number to control the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[29,26,27],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ald16","tag-ald16","tag-bbc","tag-microbit","has-author-avatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/ada-lovelace-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- https:\/\/www.kitronik.co.uk\/5616-bbc-microbit-classroom-pack.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- BBC micro:bit 10 Student Classroom Pack\n
- Element 14\u00a0tutorials using Microsoft Block Editor\n
- https:\/\/www.microbit.co.uk\/teachers-and-parents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Code (Microsoft\u2005Block\u2005Editor):\u00a0https:\/\/www.microbit.co.uk\/lhpkbr<\/a><\/li>\n