Let’s play with some Circuit Playground Express boards! We will work through a series of “Recipes” and “Snacks” to get started with the CPE board, and help you start learning about the potential of Microcontrollers as tools for your students. Try, ask questions, and have fun!
- Circuit Playground Express “Hello World”
- Circuit Playground Express Input / Output
- Circuit Playground Express I/O Snacks
Resources
- You can purchase the Circuit Playground Express boards from Adafruit.com – make sure you sign up for an educators discount so you save 20% on your order!
- Adafruit’s Learning Section has an amazing assortment of projects and tutorials. Check out their section on the Circuit Playground Express, starting with their main tutorial to review what we did in the workshop and dive into coding the board with Circuit Python.
- After working through the recipes on the CPE, you are ready to dive into the wonderful BBC Micro:bit board as well. it is also pprogrammedwith a version of MakeCode and is great for kids to use on projects.
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