Mathematics Microbit
Advanced
50 mins
120 points
What you need:
  • Chromebook/Laptop/PC
  • Microbit
  • USB Cable

Microbit Egg & Spoon Race

1 - Create a new Microbit project

Go to the makecode.microbit.org website and create a new project.

2 - Create a sprite variable called 'Egg'

Create the Egg sprite in the middle of the screen on start.

let Egg = game.createSprite(2, 2)

3 - Create a variable called 'XAcceleration'

Now we'll create a variable for the acceleration of the egg in the x-direction. We're going to use the Microbit's accelerometer and store it's x-value in our variable.

let XAcceleration = 0
basic.forever(function () {
    XAcceleration = input.acceleration(Dimension.X)
})

4 - Make the egg move left & right

We can use the XAcceleration variable to make the Egg move either left or right.

We'll need to check if the value of XAcceleration is above a certain threshold to make the egg move initially. We'll also need to check if the value is positive or negative (a positive value will make the Egg go right and a negative value will make it go left).

let Egg = game.createSprite(2, 2)
basic.forever(function () {
    XAcceleration = input.acceleration(Dimension.X)
    if (XAcceleration < -150) {
        Egg.change(LedSpriteProperty.X, -1)
    } else if (XAcceleration > 150) {
        Egg.change(LedSpriteProperty.X, 1)
    }
basic.pause(700)
})

Note that 150 is just an arbitrary value. You can change this value to make the Egg more or less reactive to movement.

Also, put in a pause block at the end of the code above if the egg is moving too fast!


5 - Make the egg move up & down

Use what you learned in previous steps to make the Egg move up and down!

see the code

You will need to create a variable called YAcceleration to store the acceleration for the Y axis (up and down), and then make the sprite move up or down based on that.

let Egg = game.createSprite(2, 2)
basic.forever(function () {
    XAcceleration = input.acceleration(Dimension.X)
    YAcceleration = input.acceleration(Dimension.Y)
    if (XAcceleration < -150) {
        Egg.change(LedSpriteProperty.X, -1)
    } else if (XAcceleration > 150) {
        Egg.change(LedSpriteProperty.X, 1)
    }
    if (YAcceleration < -150) {
        Egg.change(LedSpriteProperty.Y, -1)
    } else if (YAcceleration > 150) {
        Egg.change(LedSpriteProperty.Y, 1)
    }
    basic.pause(700)
})

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