Adafruit Circuit Playground Express Makecode

The microsoft makecode team is proud to announce a great partnership with our good friends over at adafruit industries over the last several months we have been working together on a new educational physical computing experience using microsoft makecode with a new version of the circuit playground board.

Adafruit circuit playground express makecode.

Not only did we pack even more sensors in we also made it even easier to program start your journey with microsoft. Once you ve got the hang of makecode you can then take a look at circuitpython or. Save the uf2 file to your hard drive. Drag and drop blocks or type javascript makecode let s you go back and forth between the two.

A blocks javascript code editor for the adafruit circuit playground express. With the programming area blank click the pink download button in your project window. Lucky you microsoft and adafruit have teamed up to bring you makecode for adafruit circuit playground express and now it s here in the windows app store. Adafruit industries unique fun diy electronics and kits circuit playground express id.

Once you have chrome and the makecode beta url open you will need to download a blank program to the circuit playground express. We ve taken the original circuit playground classic and made it even better. By simply dragging and dropping elemental code blocks you can create circuit playground express software in no time and even test it out with the virtual circuit playground express simulator built into the page. Once you ve loaded the editor it stays cached in your browser.

Makecode currently supports the adafruit circuit playground express. Announcing microsoft makecode for circuit playground express. Easily respond to button clicks shake gestures and more. All you need is a windows computer and a circuit playground express.

Posted may 19th 2017.