evive’s Display – Hello World!
Lesson Details
What are the specifications of evive’s display? How to display and manipulate text on the display using the evive Display Extension?
Activities:
- Creating a script to display potentiometer reading on evive's display.
Curriculum:
Physical Computing for Kids – Level 1
Classroom Bundle Used: STEM Classroom Bundle, STEM Mini Classroom Bundle
Prerequisites:
Analog Input – Reading Potentiometer
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Lesson Overview
Students will learn the following things:
- What is evive display and its specifications?
- How to display and manipulate text on evive display using evive Display Extension.
- Explore evive display extension blocks.
- Activity: Making a script to display potentiometer reading on evive display.
Material Required
1 set of the following material per group of 3-5 students:
| Component | Image | Quantity | Available in Bundle |
|---|---|---|---|
| evive |  |
1 | |
| USB A-B Cable |  |
1 |
Lesson Outline
evive Display - 10 minutes
- What is evive Display?
- What is the use of evive display and its specifications?
evive Display Extension - 30 minutes
- Overview of evive Display Extension: evive Display Extension allows you to control the display on evive screen (change colour, font size, and font colour), draw shapes, write text, and display values on the screen.
- Demonstration and practicing for the following blocks:
- Fill screen with () color
- Write () block
- Set cursor at (), () block
- Set text color () with () background & size () block
Activity - 20 minutes
Making a script to display potentiometer 1 and potentiometer 2 reading on evive display.
