Description
The Ring:bit Bricks Pack pairs a micro:bit with roughly 200 building bricks, so students design the thing before they code it. Six guided projects take a class from a set of traffic lights through a brick car, a temperature-controlled fan, a desk lamp, windscreen wipers and a working trebuchet.
What's included:
- Ring:bit v2 expansion board for the micro:bit
- Two 360° continuous rotation servos
- Rainbow LED strip
- Close to 200 building bricks, compatible with the common brick standard
- Printed assembly instructions, with six guided lessons in the Sammat Online Academy
- micro:bit board and 3 x AAA batteries are not included — add a micro:bit V2 at checkout
What students practise:
- Designing a mechanism, then writing the code that drives it
- Iterating — rebuilding when the first structure won't hold or won't move
- Controlling servos and LEDs from block code in MakeCode
- Working from an instruction set, then departing from it
Six self-paced lessons for this kit sit in Sammat's Online Academy — traffic lights, a bricks car, a temperature-controlled fan, a smart desk lamp, wipers and a trebuchet. Access is sold as an add-on to the kit, and is included in the classroom pack. Because the bricks are a standard size, a class can keep building well past the last lesson.
