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Workshop on Micro Bit 4 ALL
Dec 9, 2021 - Dec 9, 2021
PACE Mangalore, Department of computer science and Engineering under EMBED CLUB organized a one day workshop on Micro Bit for ALL on 9th Dec., 2021 for 2nd year students of CSE. The Micro Bit was designed to encourage children to get actively involved in writing software for computers and introducing them to physical computing.
The Micro Bit is an open source hardware embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education. The device is described as half the size of a credit card and has an ARM Cortex-M processor, accelerometer and magnetometer sensors, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, a display consisting of 25 LEDs, two programmable buttons, and can be powered by either USB or an external battery pack. The device inputs and outputs are through five ring connectors that form part of a larger 25-pin edge connector.
HOD Dr. Sharmila Kumari explained the importance of attending various Technical workshops. Prof. Habeeb Ur Rehman introduced students to Microbit, Prof. Mohammed Saifuddin went through other development boards available at Embed Club. Mohammed Mubasheer and Jouhar Ali conducted hands on session on Microbit using Microbits Make Code Online Compiler. Prof. Habeeb Ur Rehman and Prof. Mohammed Saifuddin were the Staff Coordinators for the event and Mubhashir (7th CSE), Jouhar Ali 5th sem CSE) where the student coordinators for the event.
