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Lighthouses stand at important or dangerous points where they serve ships as a navigation mark, which is visible at long distances including at night.
With their light signals (beacon), lighthouses show ships the way and thus allow navigation and the bypassing of dangerous positions in the waters.
In the nautical charts, the characteristics of a beacon are described by uniform abbreviations, for example:
The light phases are shorter than the dark phases. A flash lasts for less than two seconds.
The light phases are shorter than the dark phase. An blinking light is at least two seconds long.
Task 1
Program a "beacon" according to the isophase principle. Set the light and dark phases to be of an equal length of two seconds.
Task 2
Program "lighthouse lighting" according to the flash principle. For the flash lighting, set the light phase at 0.3 seconds and the dark phase at 1.5 seconds.
See full online guide with micro:bit coding samples for the Lighthouse model.
See micro:bit coding with input and output guides here.
This is a specially discounted package - delivered in a clear plastic bag.
Each pack comes with the bonus fischertechik storage base (box 250 x 186)
I/O board for micro:bit
micro:bit pins extension board, designed specially to take advantage of fischertechnik's unique, flexible red and green round plug cable connections. By design, the I/O board rubber legs slot into the fischertechnik black base-plate grid securely.
The price below is for 1 model out of the 12 models STEM II pack. If you want to build all 12 models, order the full STEM II pack instead.
To achieve fluency and competency in micro:bit coding, you really need to get a thorough understanding of each of the block catagories to be used in the Lighthouse Model (see part 2 below for the full code). Fortunately, all the reference guides are available on the BBC micro:bit web site for you to get a deeper and more comprehensive understanding and mastery.
Through every fischertechnik STEM II models (12 of them), you can learn, practise, build fluency and confidence in coding.
The Lighthouse Model used the following micro:bit blocks. You can click to lean more about each of the block catagories. The links bring you directly to the respective part of the BBC micro:bit reference document site, where live codes are included for you to understand, try, and download:
The following code has used all the mentioned blocks in Part 1 above.
Comments In English, click the " ? " on block to find out the comment (meaning) of the block code.
See full online guide with micro:bit coding samples for the Lighthouse model , plus extension activities.
8 x light/LED
4 x DC motor
5 x analog/ digital
1 x digital
- signal up to 5V
1 x sensor power supply connection
(6-9V power supply)