10RADIO ACTIVITY
The Mad Scientist has made a friend. After hitting it off at a Mad Science Conference, the two decided they wanted to keep talking—through micro:bit, of course. The micro:bit has a built-in radio transmitter and receiver, together known as a transceiver, that can communicate with Bluetooth devices. We saw this in action in the roving robot project in Chapter 6.
This radio transceiver can also be used to talk to other micro:bits using a simple message-sending and receiving protocol specific to the micro:bit. In this chapter, we’ll look at micro:bit-to-micro:bit communication, so you’ll need either two of your own micro:bits or ...
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