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drive-by-compass

This extension can be used with the OrientBit breakout board with blocks or functions for communicating with MPU9250 IMU, TCS34725, moving towards a given direction heading and microbit gpio. This is beta version.

Open this page at https://mintgenie.github.io/drive-by-compass/

Here is the OrientBit - used to change the orientation of MicroBit on certain Robots so that the built-in Compass can be used.

Use as Extension

This repository can be added as an extension in MakeCode.

open https://makecode.microbit.org/
click on New Project
click on Extensions under the gearwheel menu
search for https://github.com/mintgenie/drive-by-compass-try and import

Edit this project

To edit this repository in MakeCode.

open https://makecode.microbit.org/
click on Import then click on Import URL
paste https://github.com/mintgenie/drive-by-compass and click import

The Course_correct block is used for driving in the direction of a particular heading angle. This heading angle has to be passed as parameter to “preferred_heading”. The Course_correct block returns an array of speeds for the left motor and right motor. Assign the value of array[0] to left motor and value of array[1] to right motor.

THe available functions are shown below:

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