How to Use Radio on Microbit | Send and Receive Message Tutorial

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In this YouTube video tutorial, Surfing Scratcher shows you how to use the radio feature to communicate between multiple microbits. We’ll be using the Microsoft makecode editor and block programming to get started. We also talk a little bit about variables and why I choose to use them over strings. We touch on how to make a simple animation using the LEDs as well as handling simple user input feedback. Then we bathe in our glorious creation and demonstrate two microbits sending and receiving messages.

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[SurfingScratcher]

CODEY QUESTION 1: How have you used the radio feature of the micro:bit?
CODEY QUESTION 2: How many times did I say poop emoji in that vid?! 😂💩

[Raccoonthatdrowned]

Omg thank you soo much! I needed this code for a school projects soooo bad. THANK YOU, YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER

[Sand.]

:) i made a message system that supports emojis, numbers, leters and spaces. properly a good way for my classmates to send awnsers to others in class lol

[Yace]

THanks! used it to make a controller that unlocks, locks, and sends sentences and icons to my remote controlled door bolt lock!

[robertseast]

you helped us save some relationships🙃

[tonybollino]

Any way to send commands from one Finchbot to another using the Radio block? Essentially there is a student who wants to tell one Finchbot to "tell" another Finchbot what to do.

[terencehealy]

Dude love your pad accustic guitar & surfboard... Hope you have a longboard too

[drago_the_enchantwing]

I'm using it to do pvp racing and boxing in my workout simulator

[osmium]

How can I transfer an array via radio to another microbit? I have noticed that my array gets emptied if I do not do anything so I need a method to transfer the array via radio send.

[missiletechradar]

how do you send voice messages with the record extension via microbit radio

[WatashiYutu]

Thsnks for the video! Question though, how far apart can the Micro;Bits be? I don't have any at the moment but I need to know for a project

[tomasgruca]

Hi Codey, I'm making a micro:bit motor board where I need two motors to be powered by the micro:bit whilst also it being wireless through bluetooth, I followed your steps in the video and can't seem to get the motors to work, what am I doing wrong in this situation?

[aarfiesheikh]

Your video looks nice

I hope It will work for me...

[Kick-_-Off-_-Kings]

Pls can you explain how to make like a walkie talkie with it

[giveroflight]

Can the microbit transmit sound like this?

[soniferous]

Hi nice video.
Is there a way to measure distance between 2 microbits? (via radio or bluetooth possibly?)

[kamakshitrivedi]

Hello.. your video is very helpful. Can you please help me out with a query? Can I deploy code of microbit on heroku?

[thandodladla]

How can you make two microbits talk to each other like walkie talkie

[mayapivoda]

Hey, thank you for that informative video. Can I connect a microbit to a phone or something similar to send a message to another microbit?

[cheze_bun]

I’m adding a new radio group, group number is 50