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Not every child - every Year-7 (11-12 year old) child, whose school had a teacher interested enough to apply for them. My child's DT teacher did, but they used it for one lesson, then were given it to bring home. It's now in a drawer somewhere. That was last year. I haven't heard of any plans to repeat the exercise.
As I understand it, it was not the DT teacher -- the government gave one to every year 7 child for themselves to keep and use however they wish. This is nice in a way but the teachers at my school bemoaned that they couldn't really use them in the class, since the students could not really be counted on to bring them in when required. If you think that the school would benefit from them, then contact the PTA or the s…
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We do things like scroll your name - one character at a time is rubbish. Then we do a digital pet (think tamagotchi) and again, with a low pixel count this is crap. They want to draw unicorns or fish or bunnies. None of this is possible. After that they want it to beep when the pet is hungry. No can do. All pretty basic stuff.
you can't wire a speaker to an output pin? if I recall on the Apple II, the speaker was a single bit on/off .. I played games that had music playing concurrently with the onscreen action and even speech! I understand about the pictures though and I can understand if they kept it simple on purpose to prevent them from being able to download a picture and show it.. I work in a school and while we have a 3d printer on l…
You can do that, it supports music, and speech
http://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutoria...