Microbit Starter Smart Home Kit for BBC Micro:Bit Starter Kit DIY STEM Python & Makecode

Launched by Keyestudio, this smart home kit is based on the open-source hardware of Micro:bit and designed for those who dream of living a more comfortable life with the help of technologies.

This smart home system, with Micro:bit as its control board, is equipped with a 1602 LCD, a DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor, an analog gas sensor(MQ_2), a PIR motion sensor , a 6812 RGB module, a servo, a steam sensor, a Micro:bit BT and other sensors.

With the help of these sensors, this kit can be applied to detect temperature, humidity and the concentration of flammable gases in your home and open and close doors. Furthermore, all the information detected can display on 1602 LCD in real time available for you to check and monitor via smart phones or iPad. By the way, it supports powering by solar energy or via USB cable.

This tutorial will guide you to make and control the smart home kit by the code written in the online graphical programming platform Makecode. In this process, not only can you enhance your ability to make stuffs but also learn the skills of programming.

MakeCode for micro:bit is the most widely used graphical programming environment on the micro:bit official website. It is based on the graphical programming environment developed by Microsoft's open source project MakeCode. This graphical programming can also be converted to textual version, namely Python or JavaScript. The combination of code and graphics makes it very convenient and easy to learn. At the same time, it can be simulated or programmed for electronic components.

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Wow! A Smart-home video that allows comments!

My grandson got this kit for Christmas, and he's feeling very deflated because, he says, nothing works. I have been looking for information on what it is supposed to do when it *_does_* work, but without much success. The kit comes in two variants - with or without the Microbit, so it seems reasonable to believe that it can still do *_something_* without the Microbit - but I don't think it can. His parents, who bought the kit obviously thought it was going to be a fascinating project for him, but it seems to be no more than a frustration to him!

It seems that it
a) has a humiditry sensor that makes it close the window when it "rains",
b) can open the door with a morse code security lock - if it is the kit with a Microbit (his KS4028 kit - does not have one)
c) in some videos, we see somebody tapping on a phone and a light is changing colour, but there is no explanation
d) it can have a bubble wheel, in which case, the fan blows bubbles out - but as my grandson's does not have the bubble wheel, what is the fan for?