Navigation using Directions

Build a Device that can be used to navigate using the compass feature and the arrows (either the pre-build microbit arrows or design your own)

Basic Guide Lines

• Pick one of the 4 main directions (N S E W)

• Design a Program that will detect if the micro:bit is NOT traveling in your chose direction

  • What will you show if you are ON course

    • If your current compass reading = the direction you picked

  • What will happen if you are OFF course?

    • Alert Captain?

    • Notify direction they are currently traveling

    • Use arrows to show which way to turn the boat to head in the correct direction

    • Notify Captain when back on course

https://www.nmeaboater.com/content/blog/blog

Extensions: pick some of these or make your own

Add the ability to for the user to select a navigational setting before the trip begins

Add the ability for the captain to "set" a direction setting by moving the microbit before the trip begins

Add the 8 point direction functions

Modify the ranges so that you are not going "relatively north" but are following a specific degree marker