microsoft / microsoft/pxt-microbit
Allow users to enter pairing mode with new block in control section
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The difficulty of entering pairing mode is tricky for some students eg
https://twitter.com/jerseyitguy/status/1622205053640622080
Furthermore, if building your micro:bit into a device and mounting it somewhere, it becomes hard to trigger pairing mode to update the code.
Describe the solution you'd like
Codal will soon have an event to allow entering pairing mode that's available in both radio and bluetooth mode:
See:
https://github.com/lancaster-university/microbit-dal/issues/392
https://github.com/lancaster-university/codal-microbit-v2/issues/263
Once this is implemented in CODAL, we'd like to expose a new block in 'control' in MakeCode that generates this event. It could either be a new block, or extend the 'reset' block
CC: @JohnVidler @whaleygeek
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked CODAL issues to confirm the pairing-mode event is available in both radio and Bluetooth modes. Then inspect the control section entry point and decide whether the feature should be a new block or extend the reset block; done means the selected block generates the pairing-mode event.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- embedded-iot, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100