This advanced BBC micro:bit kit comes with an expanded circuitboard, lights, sensors, and motors which allow you to build all manner of devices, including a model human arm, an autonomous rover, a pinball machine or an animated a poem!

Home PC or Smart Device required.
Ages 8+ Reserve This Kit

Get Started

Choose your smart device / home computer then get to know about the most important parts of this kit. Learn how to create a MakeCode program for the Hummingbird Board and how to download the program to the micro:bit so you can start building and coding!

Start Building and Coding

Get Building

Learn hot to build basic mechanisms, simple robots and some simple hardware hacks to get you started: click here

Using the Outputs

Learn how to use the various types of LEDs, the servos and buzzer: Single Color LED, Tri-Color LED, LED Screen, Rotation Servo, Buzzer

Using the Inputs

Learn how to use various types of sensors, and controllers to sense the world around you: Light Sensor, Dial Control, Distance Sensor, Sound Sensor, Buttons, Accelerometer, Compass, Radio, Temperature Sensor

Coding

Variables, Moving and Avoiding Obstacles, Randomness, Compass, Line Tracking, Sensor Control, Variable Control

Project Ideas

There are lots of project ideas - build a Pinball Machine or play Miniature Golf, measure Motor Speed or build a Robot Rover, make a Moving Scene or a Robot Petting Zoo, a Tilt or Pressure Switch Alarm, simulate the systems of a Human Body or make a Robot Hand, build an Earthworm Robot or Tectonic Plates.
Find all these ideas and more, and how to build them: click here

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