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Quick Start Guide: Requirements Compiling Your Script

This quick start guide provides instructions for setting up and using a BBC micro:bit microcontroller. It outlines the requirements, including a computer and USB cable. It describes how to access the microbit website for tutorials, code scripts using the online editor, compile code into a hex file, transfer this file to the microbit device, and power the microbit using batteries when not connected to a computer. Setup and use of the microbit with phones and tablets is also mentioned.

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Quick Start Guide: Requirements Compiling Your Script

This quick start guide provides instructions for setting up and using a BBC micro:bit microcontroller. It outlines the requirements, including a computer and USB cable. It describes how to access the microbit website for tutorials, code scripts using the online editor, compile code into a hex file, transfer this file to the microbit device, and power the microbit using batteries when not connected to a computer. Setup and use of the microbit with phones and tablets is also mentioned.

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QUICK START GUIDE

For full set up instructions, please visit:


https://www.microbit.co.uk/getting-started

Requirements Compiling your script


A laptop or PC running Windows 7 or later, or a Click compile in the editor. Your script is converted
Mac running OS X 10.6 or later, or a smart phone or into a .hex file that you can transfer and run on your
tablet. BBC micro:bit.
An ale to micro USB cable to connect your To compile a different script click on My Scripts,
computer to your BBC micro:bit. This is the select the script, then click edit and compile.
same cable that is commonly used to connect a
smart phone to a computer. Transferring the file to your
Access to the Internet. BBC micro:bit
When the file has downloaded, open Finder or
Windows Explorer and open the MICROBIT drive.
Accessing the BBC micro:bit website Drag and drop the .hex file onto your MICROBIT
Just go to www.microbit.co.uk. There are lots of drive.
tutorials and information on the website. The LED on the back of your BBC micro:bit flashes
during the transfer which only takes a few seconds.
Once transferred, the code will run automatically on
Coding your BBC micro:bit your BBC micro:bit. To rerun your program, press the
reset button on the back of your BBC micro:bit. The
Go to Create Code and choose the editor that
reset button automatically runs the newest file on
you would like to code with.
the BBC micro:bit.
When you have finished your script, press run to Once you transfer a file to the BBC micro:bit, you
see it play on the on screen simulator. can disconnect the BBC micro:bit from your
computer.

Powering your BBC micro:bit


Connecting your BBC micro:bit
When your BBC micro:bit is not connected to
You connect your BBC micro:bit to your your computer with a USB, you will need 2 x AAA
computer with a micro USB cable. batteries to power it.
Connect the small end of the USB cable to
the micro USB port on your BBC micro:bit. Using phones and tablets
Connect the other end of the USB cable to a Find out how to use the BBC micro:bit App to
USB port on your computer. connect your phones and tablets with the BBC
micro:bit in the getting started section on the website.
Your computer should recognise your BBC micro:bit as a
new drive. On computers running Windows, MICROBIT
appears as a drive under Devices and drives. On a Mac
it appears as a new drive under Devices.

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