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Hand dryer: you certainly won't have anything like this in your bathroom at home, there you have a towel hanging on a hook. But in public toilets or the restrooms in restaurants there is usually an electric blower mounted on the wall for blowing your hands dry with hot air.
A good invention, particularly when the state-of-the-art appliance doesn't even have a button you have to push to turn it on. Simply hold your hands beneath it to turn it on.
Task:
When the light barrier is interrupted, the fan should start running. As soon as the light barrier is no longer interrupted, the fan switches back off.
See full online guide with coding samples for the hand dryer model, plus extension activities
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 built 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 Hand Dryer 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 model (12 of them), you can learn, practise, build fluency and confidence in coding.
The Hand Dryer 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.
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)