an input device that can control circuits through sensing light

connections on the edge of a micro:bit used to add offboard components

an online computer aided design application

components that can be attached to a micro:bit

Offboard components

Design and technology

Museum gallery prototypes

Museum gallery artefacts

Push-to-make switches

Input and output design decisions

Museum alarm programming and fault finding

Integrate programmable systems in a product

The Great Exhibition and presenting museum alarms

This unit develops pupils' programming and control knowledge, with a focus on monitoring. Debugging and troubleshooting will be introduced. Pupils will learn how to integrate a BBC Micro:bit in a product and use sensors to program a light display.

Systems and control: sensor alarms

Which of the below is a type of Micro:bit input component?

What do pins on a micro:bit allow you to do?

What is the name of the component that is not built on the micro:bit which can attach input components?

What is the name of an online computer aided design application?

What colour is a positive wire in Tinkercad?

What is a loop of electrical components called?

What should you keep away from a circuit and the cells to keep yourself safe?

Which of the below is an example of an input component in an electrical circuit?

Which of these shows a push-to-make switch?

Which of the below can be used to create a push-to-make switch?

A buzzer has two wires; one is red. What is the colour of the second wire?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Offboard components

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.