Robots and Physical Computing

I wanted to contol the CBiS micro:Bit Car via gestures whilst holding another micro:Bit (see Figure 1) I went for: - Button A in combination with moving the micro:bit left or right, moves 'Car' forwards or backwards; - Button B in combination with moving the micro:bit rotated forward or backwards, turns the 'Car' left or right; Perhaps not the most logical combination but fun. Figure 1: CBiS micro:bit car and 'controller' micro:bit The inspiration from this remote car idea came from four sources - CBiS Education site and seeing them demonstrating it; - Technology with Save Us Micro:bot Radio Control website  ; - DrBadgr blog on the Lunch Box robot ; - A twitter conversation @jobadge @scottturneruon #simples pic.twitter.com/1pXJEyNrSn — Lorraine Underwood (@LMcUnderwood) May 1, 2017 The approach taken is simple; the Controller micro:bit has the following operations (see Figure 2 for the PXT code) Buttons A+B ...