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Touch Develop Lessons

Overview of Touch Develop lessons for the @boardname@.

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Maker

• The Watch, design and create The Watch
• Hack your Headphones, create music on the @boardname@ by hacking your headphones
• Banana Keyboard, create music with fruits
• Telegraph, play the telegraph game between 2 @boardname@s
• Ornament Chain, play the ornament chain game between 2 @boardname@s

Beginner

• Beautiful Image, show a beautiful image with show LEDs

• Smiley, smiley and frowney with show animation

• Lucky 7, show a number on the LED screen with show number

• Answering Machine, show a text message with show string

• Snowflake Fall, repeat an animation with forever

• Magic Logo, show an image on logo up

• Screen Wipe, turn off the LEDs with clear screen

• Flashing Heart, display images with a pause

• Blink, turn an LED on and off with plot

• Night Light, dim the LEDs with set brightness

• Glowing Sword, make a glowing sword with fade in and fade out

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Intermediate

• Magic 8, a fortune teller game with the @boardname@
• Guess the Number, guess a random number with random
• Rock Paper Scissors, use image offsets with local variables
• Counter, display a number with a variable
• Love meter, create a love meter with on pin pressed
• Zoomer, measure the force with acceleration
• Glowing Pendulum, construct a pendulum that glows using acceleration
• Truth or Dare, a game that forces each player to reveal a secret or do something funny with if statement
• Spinner, spin the arrow with multiple if statements
• Die Roll, spin with more if statements
• Looper, display a series of numbers with a for loop index
• Strobe Light, develop shapes with a nested for loops
• Digi Yoyo, create a counter with a while loop
• Rotation Animation, control an animation with a boolean variable
• Offset Image, shift an image horizontally with image offset
• Compass, displays the direction the @boardname@ is pointing

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Advanced

• Digital Pet, a display of pet images with sub-functions
• Transformers, use functions to return values
• Speed Button, code a speed game with running time
• Catch the Egg, catch falling eggs in a basket with an acceleration controller
• Headbands, create a charades game with a collection of strings that hold the words
• Prank WiFi, create fake WiFi to trick your friends
• Jailbreak, break out of a counting loop by pressing button "A"
• Flipping Bird, use modulo with a conditional
• Runaway Pac Man, construct the game pac man with the @boardname@
• Line of Fire, make a game to test hand-eye coordination
• The Hat Game, make a game to test your focus on the moving ball
• 2 Player Pong, collaborate with a classmate to develop Pong on multiple @boardname@s

Games

• Pong, a light bouncing from left to right
• Meteorite, a game where meteorites are coming for you one by one
• Minesweeper, make a game to test your memory for placing a LED mine then finding the hidden LED mine
• Bop it, a game where you have to keep up with the commands
• Letter up, a guessing game with string operators with string at

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• Number Psych, collaborate with multiple classmates to develop a game on multiple @boardname@s and a breadboard

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