Scratch hungry dino

Step 1: Make it

What is it?

Learn how to make a wireless game controller with your micro:bit and Scratch - and help feed tacos to your dinosaur!

How it works

• To play the game, connect your micro:bit to Scratch, then tilt it to move the dinosaur to catch and eat tacos.
• Every time the dinosaur touches a taco the points variable increases by 1.
• Avoid the bugs – touch them and the points variable is reduced by 1.
• The program uses the micro:bit’s accelerometer input readings to sense which way you tilt it.
• It then uses selection to decide what happens next: if you tilt it to the front or back it moves the dinosaur sprite up and down (in the Y-axis).
• If you tilt it left and right it moves the dinosaur across the screen in the X-axis.
• The program also sends your score to the micro:bit so it appears on its LED display output.

What you need

• micro:bit and optional battery pack
• suitable computer with Scratch link installed. See https://scratch.mit.edu/microbit for details on how to get Scratch working with micro:bit

Step 2: Code it

Scratch

Open in Scratch

Download project

Step 3: Improve it

• Add a winning or losing score to end the game.
• Add more bugs or tacos or other goodies and baddies.
• Add levels to the game to make it harder as you progress.