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BBC Micro:bit in Practice

By : Ashwin Pajankar, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Saini
Book Image

BBC Micro:bit in Practice

By: Ashwin Pajankar, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Saini

Overview of this book

This book is a one-stop guide for learning BBC Micro:bit with MicroPython, exploring many hardware components and programming techniques to provide detailed insights into developing practical applications with the Micro:bit. It will also show you how hardware components can be manipulated using a combination of Micro:bit and MicroPython for developing practical projects. BBC Micro:bit in Practice will help you gain a holistic understanding of the BBC Micro:bit platform and MicroPython programming, guiding you through mini projects aimed at developing practical knowledge of circuit design and writing programs. You’ll learn how to write programs for working with built-in LEDs and buttons, interfacing external LEDs, buttons, motors, buzzers, and much more. You’ll also work with built-in radio, speakers, accelerometer, and a compass. You’ll dive into concepts related to the Micro:bit filesystem, interfacing external displays, and working with libraries in detail before exploring sewable circuits and wearable technology. After reading this Micro:bit book, you’ll understand how to apply principles in electronics and MicroPython to create interesting real-life projects from scratch.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with the BBC Micro:bit
6
Part 2: Programming Hardware with MicroPython
10
Part 3: Filesystems and Programming Analog I/O
13
Part 4: Advanced Hardware Interfacing and Applications

Lists, tuples, and dictionaries

Python comes with a lot of built-in data structures. In this section, we will explore a few of them. We will use the shell (REPL) for this. Let’s get started with lists. Lists can store more than one item. They are defined with square brackets, and a comma separates their elements. Lists are mutable. This means that we can change the items in lists. They also allow duplicates. Open the REPL of the IDE of your choice and start following the examples:

>>> office_suites = ["Microsoft Office", "LibreOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "FreeOffice", "WPS Office", "Polaris Office", "StarOffice", "NeoOffice", "Calligra Suite", "OnlyOffice"]

We can see the values in the dictionary on the REPL shell console by typing in the name of the list as follows:

>>> office_suites
['Microsoft Office', 'LibreOffice', 'Apache...