Animated Helicopter & Game Controller

Computer Science Physical Computing
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Here's a one-minute video illustrating use of Snap! in combination with MicroBlocks to create a game controller:

Here's the Snap! program:

Here's the corresponding MicroBlocks code (attached):

MakerPort Helicopter (tilt sensor).ubp (30.1 KB)

This could also be adapted for other microcontrollers with tilt sensors like the micro:bit.

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You can upload the MicroBlocks ubp file in this topic.
I made also a number of samples with Snap! and MicroBlocks together. Let's see if I find a little time to upload them.

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Thanks for the explanation. I added the MicroBlocks code as a attachment to this reply:

MakerPort Helicopter (tilt sensor).ubp (30.1 KB)

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If you find a moment to upload some of the examples that you have developed, that would be helpful to our students.

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Lovely work :slight_smile:

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A little tip you may not know. In Chrome you can connect to the microcontroller from Snap! and MicroBlocks at the same time using BLE.

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We tried this and it worked! Thanks so much for this recommendation. It is saving a lot of time.

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FYI: In the latest dev version of Snap!, Snap! Build Your Own Blocks, you can try the latest version of the MicroBlocks library. You have only 3 blocks and can use the standard Snap! broadcast block to send messages to the microcontroller.

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Yes, that's what we have been using. The ability to use the standard Broadcast block is lovely.

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Hi @glenbull,

This is a link to my Google Drive with 4 very basic examples that I made and used in Walldorf during Snap!Shot.

It was made for micro:bit's or Calliope mini 3 boards that have a lot of sensors. The activity was for children from SAP employees. I had a 2 hour workshop and the children were able to use 2 programming languages at the same time and often for the first time.

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These are lovely! The Flying Birds project is similar to the helicopter example that we shared. Thanks!

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@petermathijssen I’m trying to upload a .ubp file, but I keep getting the following message.

”Sorry, the file you are trying to upload is not authorized (authorized extensions: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, heic, heif, webp, svg).”

Has something changed?

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Yes I guess something has changed. This is something @cycomachead has to fix :wink: