Getting Started

Introduction

Get to Know and Protect Nature
We live together on this beautiful blue planet: on Earth. On the earth, there are blue seas, green forests, clear streams, yellow deserts, colorful flowers, a variety of plants and animals; All this makes our home flourish and vibrant.

However, the population expansion, the acceleration of urbanization, the expansion of industry, deforestation, the air becomes cloudy, the streamlines no longer clear...

Environmental protection is not only the public welfare but also the responsibility of everyone, no matter what we do, as large as afforestation, as small as garbage classification. Everyone should make effort to protect the environment. But what kind of things are we capable of to protect the environment?

To begin with, let’s get to know and understand nature itself. Through the learning, we can not only learn all kinds of nature knowledge, such as temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, ultraviolet light, color, light, water quality and so on... We can also learn how to use micro:bit to measure and use this data, so as to better protect nature and cherish our living environment.

Hardware Preparation

• micro:bit Environment Expansion Board x1
• micro:bit x1
• AAA Battery x1
• USB Cable x1
  

Software Preparation

• Click to open the online Makecode programming MakeCode
• Load the micro:bit natural science library: https://github.com/DFRobot/pxt-NaturalScience

Wiring Diagram

• The probe cannot be used in water above 55°C.
• The probe cannot be left too close to the edge of the container, otherwise it will affect the reading.
• The head and the cable of the probe are waterproof, but the connector and the signal transmitter board are not. Please be careful!
• STM32 IIC Address: 0x1F
• Dimension: 196mm x 110.6mm
• Supportive Programming Platform: Makecode, Mind+