{"id":14288,"date":"2023-11-28T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:46:39","slug":"microbit-rockstars-ty-students-code-cardboard-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/microbit-rockstars-ty-students-code-cardboard-guitars\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro:bit Rockstars: TY Students Code Cardboard Guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In our computer class, Transition Year (TY) students are diving into a creative blend of music and coding. Armed with Micro:bits, they&#8217;re crafting electric guitars from cardboard, tape, crocodile clips, and tin foil. The genius lies in the simplicity: touch the tin foil which are connected to pin 1 or pin 2 on the Micro:bit, and press \u2018<i>Ground\u2019<\/i>\u00a0simultaneously, and voila\u2014a chord rings out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xelementtoproof\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Let&#8217;s break it down: Pins 1 and 2 on the Micro:bit act like keys on a musical keyboard. When a person holds a thin foil connected to these pins, they complete the circuit by pressing \u2018<i>Ground\u2019<\/i>! The result is the guitar plays chords \u2013 as it is instructed to do by our coders using the MakeCode programming language. This is not just about coding; it&#8217;s an interactive experience that fuses fun, teamwork, and creativity \u2013 well done to everyone! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TYs coding Guitars\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ulQxZlPytDA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our computer class, Transition Year (TY) students are diving into a creative blend of music and coding. Armed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moatecs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Guitar_coding.png?fit=857%2C640&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}