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BBC Micro:bit in Practice
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BBC Micro:bit in Practice

by Ashwin Pajankar, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Saini
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
292 pages
5h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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13

Networking and Radio

In the previous chapter, we learned how to program the Micro:bit for producing music and speech. We learned to connect an external speaker to the Micro:bit. We also explored the built-in speaker and microphone in Micro:bit V2.

Networking means connecting two or more computers (or microcontrollers). It enables them to exchange data. This short yet intense chapter focuses on networking multiple (a minimum of two) Micro:bit devices together to exchange data between them. We will also create a few simple games that demonstrate the radio communication capabilities of the Micro:bit. The following is a list of topics that we will explore in this chapter:

  • A wired network with GPIO pins
  • Working with radio
  • Basketball using Micro:bit ...
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