Hello Gunnar! Thanks for sharing all these great ideas of projects using the Micro:bit! They help me out a great deal in helping my pupils to decide upon their projects. I was wondering of you could make a video on something like a heat seeking device? Like a servo attached to a camera that follows your motion whenever you enter a room? I’m really looking forward to see your next video! I can hardly wait!
Thank you very much for your comment - it made me happy. And thanks for the new idea, which probably will be quite difficult to make. Right now I am working on an expansion kit (Wappsto:bit), which can make the Micro:bit go online, so you - among other things - can log your data.
@@gunnarlund6633 This looks like a great extension board with both the WiFi and the GPS features. No wonder you’ve been busy! Wappsto:bit seems much easier to use than attaching an ESP8266 WiFi module to a separate edge connector. I’m looking forward to try one out when it is released!
Hi! Is there any chance you could do a microbit / PIR tutorial on: if i wanted to make my Microbit count the amount of people walking past the sensor (eg. People walking in through a venue & counting the amount of attendees the facility has) I am doing an assessment where I have to make a Covid19 device which alerts staff when the facility has reached maximum capacity (eg. 20 people). I am not too sure how to code this... Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thankyou
I'm working on another project so I can't promise to make the desired video. But I would suggest the following: you assume that the store has a separate entrance and exit and that a PIR sensor is set up at both the entrance and the exit. Customers arrive at a slow pace (they enter one at a time in and out through a revolving door). At the exit, the Micro:bit counts how many people leave the store. It must be equipped with the radio function and sends a message to the Micro:bit at the entrance. The micro:bit here is a kind of master where the store can check the number of customers. It must also use the radio function and it counts 1 up for each customer that comes in, and when it receives a radio pulse from the output, it counts 1 down. It can give an alarm, when a certain number of customers is reached - or It could lock the entrance.
Thankyou Gunnar for sharing this ! Has helped me significantly with my university assessment coming up. I feel alot more comfortable with my PIR sensor now :) !!!
Hi Gunnar it's me again! I was just wondering if you could assist me in my coding for my final MicroBit code for my university assignment... As previously mentioned, I am planning to create a COVID 19 venue capacity tracking system. The problem is, I only have one microbit to work with. I have purchased a SIR (Proximity sensor) as well as the additional alligator clips, etc. Though I am not too sure how I can code this on Microsoft Make code to count the amount of people who enter the venue. Ultimately I wish my code to process: - Patrons entering venue (maximum capacity being 20) - Microbit has a sound when capacity has reached the maximum amount of people (20 people) - a reset button (A or B) to deduct 1 patron. - another rest button (A or B) to reset the counted people. It would be amazing if you could make through a code & send it through (email, facebook, etc) So I am able to test it out before my assessment is due. Im so sorry for the long message. I am still quite confused with the entire microbit coding situation so your assistance would be super beneficial to me ! :)
Hi Zara. Thank you for your message. I do not think I can come up with more help for you. I do not know the SIR sensor and it will not be possible for me to make the desired code without being able to try it in real life. I hope you will find a solution. Gunnar
Hi Gunnar Lund my school has bought a load of these sensors but none of them seem to work.They either don't detect any motion or detect motion every second. I was wondering if you would have a solution, thanks
Hi Sulantro. It takes some minutes until the PIR has warmed up! Do you use an external power supply? 3V from the Micro:bit is not enough. Do you connect as well the PIR as the Micro:bit to common GND? Have you studied my video where the adjustments are explained? Are the of the same type as shown on the video?
Hello Gunnar! Thanks for sharing all these great ideas of projects using the Micro:bit! They help me out a great deal in helping my pupils to decide upon their projects.
I was wondering of you could make a video on something like a heat seeking device? Like a servo attached to a camera that follows your motion whenever you enter a room?
I’m really looking forward to see your next video! I can hardly wait!
Thank you very much for your comment - it made me happy. And thanks for the new idea, which probably will be quite difficult to make. Right now I am working on an expansion kit (Wappsto:bit), which can make the Micro:bit go online, so you - among other things - can log your data.
@@gunnarlund6633 This looks like a great extension board with both the WiFi and the GPS features. No wonder you’ve been busy! Wappsto:bit seems much easier to use than attaching an ESP8266 WiFi module to a separate edge connector. I’m looking forward to try one out when it is released!
Hi! Is there any chance you could do a microbit / PIR tutorial on: if i wanted to make my Microbit count the amount of people walking past the sensor (eg. People walking in through a venue & counting the amount of attendees the facility has) I am doing an assessment where I have to make a Covid19 device which alerts staff when the facility has reached maximum capacity (eg. 20 people). I am not too sure how to code this... Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thankyou
I'm working on another project so I can't promise to make the desired video. But I would suggest the following: you assume that the store has a separate entrance and exit and that a PIR sensor is set up at both the entrance and the exit. Customers arrive at a slow pace (they enter one at a time in and out through a revolving door). At the exit, the Micro:bit counts how many people leave the store. It must be equipped with the radio function and sends a message to the Micro:bit at the entrance. The micro:bit here is a kind of master where the store can check the number of customers. It must also use the radio function and it counts 1 up for each customer that comes in, and when it receives a radio pulse from the output, it counts 1 down. It can give an alarm, when a certain number of customers is reached - or It could lock the entrance.
@@gunnarlund6633 No worries at all! Your description has been plenty of help in itself. Thankyou ! I'll take that on board :) !
@@zaramorrison6057 Very good!
Thankyou Gunnar for sharing this ! Has helped me significantly with my university assessment coming up. I feel alot more comfortable with my PIR sensor now :) !!!
Thank you - it is lovely to get feed back of that kind ;-)
hi thank you for sharing this do you know how to create a counter using a motion censor
Hi Sally. Maybe you can get an idea from this video: ua-cam.com/video/fh9yXPU-QF8/v-deo.html
You don't need to use the Wappsto:bit
Hi Gunnar it's me again!
I was just wondering if you could assist me in my coding for my final MicroBit code for my university assignment... As previously mentioned, I am planning to create a COVID 19 venue capacity tracking system.
The problem is, I only have one microbit to work with.
I have purchased a SIR (Proximity sensor) as well as the additional alligator clips, etc.
Though I am not too sure how I can code this on Microsoft Make code to count the amount of people who enter the venue.
Ultimately I wish my code to process:
- Patrons entering venue (maximum capacity being 20)
- Microbit has a sound when capacity has reached the maximum amount of people (20 people)
- a reset button (A or B) to deduct 1 patron.
- another rest button (A or B) to reset the counted people.
It would be amazing if you could make through a code & send it through (email, facebook, etc)
So I am able to test it out before my assessment is due.
Im so sorry for the long message.
I am still quite confused with the entire microbit coding situation so your assistance would be super beneficial to me ! :)
Hi Zara. Thank you for your message. I do not think I can come up with more help for you. I do not know the SIR sensor and it will not be possible for me to make the desired code without being able to try it in real life. I hope you will find a solution. Gunnar
@@gunnarlund6633 No stress at all, thankyou kindly anyways :)
Hi Gunnar Lund my school has bought a load of these sensors but none of them seem to work.They either don't detect any motion or detect motion every second. I was wondering if you would have a solution, thanks
Hi Sulantro. It takes some minutes until the PIR has warmed up! Do you use an external power supply? 3V from the Micro:bit is not enough. Do you connect as well the PIR as the Micro:bit to common GND? Have you studied my video where the adjustments are explained? Are the of the same type as shown on the video?
@@gunnarlund6633 thanks it works now the problem was that when it was warming up it was detecting movement and it stopped the calibration
@@sulantro3511 👍👌