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    MAKING BIRDS DANCE IN A SPECIAL CLOUD

    Nov 30, 2018 4 minutes
    By Enrico Miglino
    Photographs: Enrico Miglino

    The experiment in this issue aims to demonstrate that birds are not always angry, but can also do something else! Am I joking? Sure, but I should admit that I was inspired to make this project by the popular game Angry Birds.

    This fourth article in our series on practical, educational BBC Micro Bit experiments is a little more complex than the others. We will see how the Micro Bit can connect to control another microcontroller, while we send commands through Bluetooth via a smartphone.

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    As in all the other projects based on the Micro Bit, we

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