Recap
Lorna Gibson from the Micro:Bit Education Foundation guided learners through a coding activity to turn you micro:bit into a (virtual!) hot potato! This particular activity looks at using loops and variables to create a timer. The recording of this session didn’t work very well, so here is an alternative instructional tutorial from Micro:bit.
Next steps and related activities can be found at the bottom of this post.
The Hot Potato Game Demo
Video Instruction from Micro:Bit
Acknowledgements: Videos on this page originally created and hosted at Hot potato game | micro:bit (microbit.org)
Next Steps
- can you think of another use for the random timer? For example, you could try to code your micro:bit so that at some point during the school day it alerts you to get active – eg the message “Do 10 Star Jumps” could appear at random.
Related Micro:bit Activities
- You can explore timer based coding activities with the micro:bit with these tutorials
- Musical Countdown Makecode Tutorial
- The 7 Second Game – Video Demo and the Makecode Tutorial
- If you want to go further, why not try to build and code some timing gates!
