Microbit Arts
Advanced
45 mins
210 points
What you need:
Computer/laptop
Microbit
USB Cable
LED Strip with crocodile clips

Microbit LED Strip

Program a strip of LEDs to light up and show colourful displays!

1 - Introduction

In this project we are going to program a strip of 30 LEDs to light up different ways. We will connect our Microbits to them and use the microbits to send the instructions to the LED strip!


2 - Create a new Microbit project

To get started create a new Microbit project.

makecode.microbit.org

3 - Add the neopixel extension

To access the blocks we need to program the LED strip, you need to add the neopixel extension to your project.


4 - Setup the LED Strip

To be able to interact and program the LED strip we will need a variable that stores the strip.

Add the following code to your project. We set the value to be 30 as there are 30 LEDs on the strip.

5 - Show a rainbow

Next let's program the strip to show a rainbow of colours, when your microbit turns on.

Add the show rainbow block to your project.

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