Adafruit Circuit Playground Express Makecode

Announcing microsoft makecode for circuit playground express.

Adafruit circuit playground express makecode.

Be sure you ve gone through the tutorial here on the basics of makecode for circuit playground express. Makecode currently supports the adafruit circuit playground express. Once you ve got the hang of makecode you can then take a look at circuitpython or. Save the uf2 file to your hard drive.

3333 circuit playground express is the next step towards a perfect introduction to electronics and programming. All you need is a windows computer and a circuit playground express. Arduino ide or direct arm gcc programming if this is your very first time programming or coding we suggest starting with makecode it is the super fast to get started not just with circuit playground express but coding in general. Once you have chrome and the makecode beta url open you will need to download a blank program to the circuit playground express.

Easily respond to button clicks shake gestures and more. Adafruit industries unique fun diy electronics and kits circuit playground express id. Once you ve loaded the editor it stays cached in your browser. Lucky you microsoft and adafruit have teamed up to bring you makecode for adafruit circuit playground express and now it s here in the windows app store.

A blocks javascript code editor for the adafruit circuit playground express. The microsoft makecode team is proud to announce a great partnership with our good friends over at adafruit industries over the last several months we have been working together on a new educational physical computing experience using microsoft makecode with a new version of the circuit playground board. Drag and drop blocks or type javascript makecode let s you go back and forth between the two. Not only did we pack even more sensors in we also made it even easier to program start your journey with microsoft.

By simply dragging and dropping elemental code blocks you can create circuit playground express software in no time and even test it out with the virtual circuit playground express simulator built into the page.