Mood Radio
This project uses the radio to share your mood with other micro:bits.
When you press A
, your friends will see a smiley face. When you press B
, they will see a frowny face.
Sending a smiley
The micro:bit can’t understand mood but it is pretty good with numbers. In fact, it can send numbers between micro:bits using the radio antenna, just like a phone can send text messages.
Let’s add blocks that send a number when button A
is pressed. We assume that 0
is the “mood code” to send for smiley.
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, () => {
radio.sendNumber(0)
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Happy)
})
Receiving a smiley
We add a ||radio:on received number||
block that will run code whenever a new “mood” message comes in.
The receivedNumber
variable contains the numeric value that was sent. Since we’ve decided that
0
is smiley, we add a conditional ||logic:if then||
statement to show this icon.
radio.onReceivedNumber(function (receivedNumber) {
if (receivedNumber == 0) {
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Happy)
}
})
Sending a frowny
Adding another mood to our messaging app done in a similar way. We decide that the “mood code” of 1
means frowny. We can add a B
button event that sends that code.
input.onButtonPressed(Button.B, () => {
radio.sendNumber(1)
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Sad)
})
If the ||radio:on received number||
block, we add another conditional ||logic:if then||
statement to handle the frowny “mood code”.
radio.onReceivedNumber(function (receivedNumber) {
if (receivedNumber == 0) {
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Happy)
}
if (receivedNumber == 1) {
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Sad)
}
})
That’s it. Download your code to multiple micro:bits and try it out!
Challenges
Try adding a new code and use the ||input:on shake||
event to send it.
Full sources
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, () => {
radio.sendNumber(0)
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Happy)
})
input.onButtonPressed(Button.B, () => {
radio.sendNumber(1)
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Sad)
})
radio.onReceivedNumber(function (receivedNumber) {
if (receivedNumber == 0) {
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Happy)
}
if (receivedNumber == 1) {
basic.showIcon(IconNames.Sad)
}
})
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