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Review on Yahboom Micro Control Joystick Education by Richard Marriott

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annoying, noisy, no extension support on makecode

Right out of the box, plug it in, plug in your microbit and press a button to hear the unholy hum. Makecode extensions are not supported. For this to work with Microbit, you need to import libraries from other sources. I went through an online guide to get rocker working and it added the GHBit extension to Makecode and I was excited, opened it and it's not all in English. It seems to be for people who just want to install something and have it do a specific task, not those who want to try different things and learn how it works, which is basically what a microbit is all about. on the back of the unit so thought I would use this to get the buttons working and I really wonder if I'm on a bad unit because mine would just make a very loud high pitched buzz once the program starts. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason behind it. Just a loud buzz. I flipped the switch to turn it off, but apparently that disabled the buttons as well. This device shouldn't be that complicated. At the very least, it should have a makecode extension to make it accessible remotely as well.

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  • Some troubles