[Microbit-Python] micro:bit - communications with a PC

[David Whale]

Jonny and I made a 41 micro:bit tone-matrix using this Python code below,
that we showed at ARM TechCon this year.

https://github.com/whaleygeek/tonematrix

There were 40 micro:bits working via the radio interface, and a 41st
micro:bit acted as a gateway between the radio network and the USB serial
on a Raspberry Pi. There is a version of pyserial embedded inside this
project, so feel free to lift the 'microbit' folder as it does all the hard
work of connecting to the microbit and managing state etc etc.

The Raspberry Pi uses pygame to play musical chords through a speaker. The
40 micro:bits form a 5x8 matrix that you can use to turn on and of specific
notes at specific positions.

Here is a very short video that ARMEmbedded tweeted from the show:

https://twitter.com/ARMEmbedded/status/791346934644609024

David



On 24 December 2016 at 14:24, Austen Rose via Microbit <microbit at python.org>
wrote:

> And just to be sure, the best way for direct communication from a PC to
> an app running on my microbit is over USB, via REPL?
>
> Thanks all for the help and thoughts.
>
> Austen Rose
> arose85618 at aol.com
>
>
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> CC: Austen Rose <arose85618 at aol.com>
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>
> You could have another microbit attached to the PC as the receiving
> station.  It would listen on the radio and pass on the messages via the usb
> cable.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 24 Dec 2016, at 09:28, Thierry Chantier <titimoby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To do that, you'll have to find a way for the PC to communicate on the
> same radio frequency qith the same protocol.
> That could be nice.
>
>
> Le sam. 24 déc. 2016 à 00:15, Austen Rose via Microbit <
> microbit at python.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Nicholas,
>>
>> I have four microbits that communicate happily over radio, but what I
>> want to do is be able to do is add my PC to the network. So if I have, for
>> instance, my Linux PC as a master controller and then the microbits as
>> slaves, then I could stream data to/from my PC and my microbit network.
>>
>> I am using the Mu editor. I don't really have a project in mind, but I'd
>> like to explore the options.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Austen Rose
>> arose85618 at aol.com
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