module 2A:

Lighting Neopixel

In this module, students will learn:

 What are RGB LEDs
 What are Neopixels
 How to program Neopixels
What is a RGB LED?
• RGB LED is a LED that has 3 color LED
inside it (Red, Green, Blue). It can
produce over 16 million hues of light.

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How LED works
• The LED lights up if we connect power to the
positive part and ground to the negative part.
The charges in the positive and negative part
will combined to create a photon (light
power).

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How rgb LED works
• The RGB LED works the same as LEDs, but the
unique in RGB LED is you can set the power to the
respective color. If we put 0 power to red and blue
and we put 5V to green then we get green color.

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What is neopixel
• These are individually LEDs or RGB LEDs all
housed on a string that can be controlled from a
single pin or a single power.

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What is neopixel

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Recall: How to connect mio jr. to your
pc
• First get your USB to Mini USB cable and plug it to the
Microcontroller (it can reattach to your Mio Jr.).

You should see this in

your PC. MATRIXBIT

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Recall: Makecode
1. Go to makecode.microbit.org
2. Click New project
3. Program and make your codes

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Recall: Makecode
4. Go to Settings and click Extensions.
5. Put in the search tab https://github.com/onion3/Zero
6. Press enter and click the extension showed up.

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Recall: Makecode

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Recall: Makecode
After you click it, it will download into your
workplace and this new menus will be added.

New added menus

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Recall: Makecode
After you code click save then put the download
file into your microcontroller’s folder.

Click this
Find where you
download it then copy
and paste your hex file
to the Matrixbit (G:)

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programming blocks
Programming Function

Run your program just only

once

Run your program repeatedly

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programming blocks
Programming Function

Set your setup for

Neopixels

Allow you to setup your

Neopixels properties

Allow you to light the

desired color

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Exercise # 1
Instruction: Light up your Mio Jr. with any
2 colors.

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Exercise # 1
Solution:

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Activity # 1
Instruction: Light up your Mio Jr. with
rainbow colors.

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Activity # 1
Solution:

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GET EXCITED FOR THE NEXT
ONE!

In this module, students will learn:

 How to use delay blocks
 How to blink lights
 How to program and execute it
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