Send Messages with Micro:Bit

Download this workshop and more from our Micro:Bit Beginners Bundle:

1.

Navigate to https://makecode.microbit.org/# and select new project.

2.

From the blue basic menu, select and drag the ‘on start’ command into the editor box.

3.

From the bright pink radio menu, select and drag the ‘radio set group’ command and place it within the ‘on start’ command. Agree a number for your radio group and set this here.

4.

From the pink input menu, select and drag the ‘on button A pressed’ command into the editor box.

5.

From the bright pink radio menu, drag the radio send string command into the ‘on button A pressed’ command. Set the message you want to send to another micro:bit.

6.

From the bright pink radio menu, select and drag the ‘on radio received’ command into the editor.

7.

From the blue basic menu, select and drag the ‘show string’ command into the ‘on radio received recievedString’ command.

8.

In the red variables menu, a new variable ‘receivedString’ should have appeared. Drag this onto the default text ‘Hello!’ on the ‘show string’ command.