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pxt-orientbit

MINT Genie OrientBit extension can be used with the breakout board with blocks or functions for communicating with FC-03 wheel encoder, MPU9250 IMU, TCS34725, moving towards a given direction heading and microbit gpio. This is beta version.

Open this page at https://mintgenie.github.io/pxt-orientbit/

Here is the OrientBit - used to change the orientation of MicroBit on certain Robots so that the built-in Compass can be used. It can also be used to add a I2C OLED Display (SSD1306), 2 Wheel encoders, a TCS34725 color sensor and MPU9250 IMU.

Use this extension along with https://github.com/fizban99/microbit_ssd1306 for OLED

Usage Example 1: Here is an example implementation of reading out the Number of Rotations of wheel from the Encoder and displaying it on the OLED Display -

Usage Example 2: Here is an example of using the Maqueen extension and with the onboard Compass to orient the Maqueen to a particular direction - link: https://makecode.microbit.org/_fuP0f2UTicXt The course correct block returns 2 values as an array which are each the speeds of left and right motors.

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/pxt-orientbit 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/pxt-orientbit and click import

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