1. BBC Microbit

2. Objective of the lesson
Use Block Editor to make a Fading Heart
All of you will:
Display a heart on the Microbit
Most of you will:
Change the brightness of the heart
Some of you will:
Make the heart fade in and out smoothly

3. Fading Heart 1
Create a forever loop and add an image of a heart
Use set brightness to 255. This is maximum brightness

4. Add a pause
Now set its brightness to about half of that value and add another pause
The LEDs should fade and then go bright again

5. Challenge
Get the LEDs to ‘set brightness 0’ before looping around again
Get the LEDs to fade down and then fade back up again
Add other values inbetween 255 and 125, 125 and 0 to create a smoother fade

6. Answers

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