Secure messaging

Корак 1: Уради

Шта је ово?

Send coded BBC micro:bit radio messages to tell someone how you’re feeling.

These two videos show you what you'll make and how to program it:

Како то ради

• Press different button inputs on your micro:bit to send different messages over radio to another micro:bit to tell someone how you’re feeling. The output on the receiver micro:bit is either a happy, sad or excited emoji on the LED display.
• Make sure you and your partner use a unique radio group so that you can send your message to a particular micro:bit or a particular person who has that micro:bit.
• The program uses a simple kind of code, or encryption. This could stop, for example, another person from reading your messages, and keep them secure.
• The code used is a simple number cipher. This is a kind of encryption. In this example, 17 means happy, 23 means sad, and 42 means excited. Note - only numbers or letters can be sent by radio and not emojis.
• Agreeing a unique radio group, a set of possible messages, and a way of encrypting those messages with a partner means you have agreed a protocol, or rules for communicating and keeping your messages secure. Use this sheet to plan your own messaging protocol.
• The same code goes on both micro:bits, so you and your partner can communicate with each other.

Шта вам је потребно

• 2 micro:bit-а
• MakeCode or Python online editors
• батерије (опционално)
• Secure messaging planning sheet (optional)

Корак 2: Програмирај

1from microbit import * 2import radio 3 4# The Python version of this project has sleep() 5# for each button press to make the A+B button work better 6 7radio.config(group=3) 8radio.on() 9 10while True: 11 if button_a.is_pressed() and button_b.is_pressed(): 12 display.show(Image.SURPRISED) 13 radio.send('42') 14 sleep(300) 15 display.clear() 16 elif button_a.is_pressed(): 17 display.show(Image.HAPPY) 18 radio.send('17') 19 sleep(300) 20 display.clear() 21 elif button_b.is_pressed(): 22 display.show(Image.SAD) 23 radio.send('23') 24 sleep(300) 25 display.clear() 26 27 message = radio.receive() 28 if message: 29 if message == '17': 30 display.show(Image.HAPPY) 31 elif message == '23': 32 display.show(Image.SAD) 33 else: 34 display.show(Image.SURPRISED) 35 sleep(2000) 36 display.clear() 37 sleep(200)

Корак 3: Унапреди

• Customise the emojis to send different messages.
• Use more of the micro:bit’s physical inputs such as the shake gesture or the touch logo on the micro:bit V2 to send even more messages.
• Show scrolling text, such as the words 'hot', 'cold' and 'warm', instead of emojis to play a hide and seek game.