"When you hand someone a GameFace, it stops being a micro:bit, and starts being something else; a standalone product in its own right, engineered by young people."
This is an overall heading for BBC micro:bit workshops, which I'm calling GameFace. As the name suggests, it's a games-based project. The workshops collectively cover electronics, programming, and fabrication.
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By far the most popular game so far is Quick Bit. It's a 30 line game written in Python, testing speed of reactions. It works really well with a modular case design, and is suitable for one-day workshops.
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Button bit uses arcade buttons, and tests the reactions of multiple players.
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I'm a way of developing it properly, but I've written up a set of rules for a multiple room-wide game based on balancing micro:bits and running around a room.