Activity 03.03: Which Way Home?

Goal: Create a program that prints your current bearing.

Success Criteria:

  • The micro:bit runs the program with no errors
  • Your program is an infinite loop that displays the direction you are facing in the console

Task:

  • Take a look at this demo
  • Use the documentation
  • Fill in the blanks below
  • A Tricky Challenge: Use the documentation to find a function that converts the integer from getBearing() into N, E, S or W, then print this instead of the integer

Extension:

  • Try to answer the question, what way home?
  • What is your bearing from where you are now to the front door?
  • What is your bearing from the front door to where you were sitting?
  • What is your bearing from where you are now toyour school reception?
  • Experiment with some other bearings
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