See Coding the Circuit Playground Express for more information.

Tape the cutout drawings over each opening from the inside.Painting the lid at this point is another option. You may wish to trace the lid onto black paper to create a uniform surface for the display side of your box’s lid. Use the cut out images to guide you in planning holes that are slightly smaller. Once the divider is in place, plan the holes in the lid for each compartment that your images will go in.Cut out the images you have drawn on tracing paper, but be sure to leave margins so that the cutouts are bigger than the holes you will make.Using white cardboard or lining the compartments with white paper will help bounce more light to your images.You may need to reduce light bleed between compartments by adding masking tape.Be sure that they fit well on the Circuit Playground Express before you commit with glue. Leave the dividers’ ends a bit long so that you can fold them, and then hot glue or tape them to the box’s sides.

You could also divide it into thirds instead of fourths if desired. Two notched pieces of thin cardboard that are slotted together will probably work well. To control which lights illuminate which images, fabricate an X-shaped divider with notches on the bottom that fit over the Circuit Playground Express.So cut holes in the box for access as needed. Keep in mind that you’ll want access to the micro USB jack for updating code, and you may also want to use the JST battery connector.Attach a Circuit Playground Express to the middle of the inside of the box with a loop of tape.Make or find a small box that is about 2.5-5 inches deep.Glue gun and hot glue (if making your own box or enclosure from cardboard.Cardboard box (about 2.5-5 inches deep – a modified shoebox works well for this) or flat cardboard.See the Maker Tools and Techniques Chapter for more details on materials Physical Education: Illustrate the key components of a pitch / kick / shot / play.Music: Associate tones or short pieces of music with each image or with the project as a whole.Language study: depict different tenses of the same verb, tell a character’s story.Science: illustrate how a process develops, show evolutionary adaptations, convey data from a study, or illustrate geological events.History: show important scenes around an event, depict disparate views of the same historical event, or convey a representative story.Literature: represent a character’s evolution, depict key settings or show important symbols from a novel’s plot.

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