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Friday, 5 June 2020

Microsoft MakeCode - Compass

Last term, before the corona virus lock down, our electrical class were working on our assessed projects. There were three projects to choose from, a compass for the blind, ukulele tuner or design a space invaders game. I choose to make a compass for the blind, by using different pitched bleeping sounds to distinguish between north and south, accurate within 2 degrees. I did try and use a recording to say when the compass was pointing north but the program was unable to record a voice tape.

On the coding program screen, there is a replica of a microbit. when i had finished coding  I used the replica microbit to test my piece of code. I had to make  few adjustment to the pitch of the bleeps and the time between each sound.

I really enjoyed making this piece of code and maybe, if I add more software, then I will be able to make the voice recording work :)