Noise Add-on Pack for Inventor's Kit for the BBC micro:bit Handheld Computer

Grades 2-12.

Expand your STEM/STEAM lessons and the capabilities of your Inventor's Kit for the BBC micro:bit handheld computer (SB53372) with this add-on pack that teaches students how to build and code musical instruments, amplifiers, and EQs, including High and Low Pass Filters (HPF/LPF). Allows students to build instruments, and amplify, and shape and manipulate their sounds without purchasing expensive Pultecs or console channel strips. Students will build and code 5 experiments:

• Varying the Tone with a Piezo buzzer
• Building a Mono Amplifier
• Touch Control
• The Digital Trumpet
• Equalize Your Sound

Included Components

• 100k resistor
• Two 3.3k resistors
• 15k resistor
• Three 100nF ceramic disk capacitors
• Two 1F electrolytic capacitors
• 2 potentiometers
• 2 finger adjust spindles
• 2 solid core connecting wires
• 10 M/M jumper wires
• 0.15W 8 speaker
• 4 F/F jumper wires
• NCP2890 audio amplifier IC breakout board
• 3 key touch PCB
• Tutorial booklet with 5 experiments

Required but not included: BBC micro:bit (SB53386), Inventor's Kit for the BBC micro:bit (SB53372), and micro USB cable.