Elecfreaks micro:bit Retro Arcade review and unboxing

Elecfreaks microbit Retro Arcade review and unboxing
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[@jdonwells]

I like the concept behind this product. I have the MakeCode Retro Arcade for Education device. It looks like a GameBoy. It works till at about 24 sprites then it just can't keep up. I would also like to see an extension for use with the BBC micro:bit IDE. If it could be used as a display for micro:bit data that would be fantastic. It would be two devices in one.

[@artmanstudios7037]

I think this would be way too expensive at least for the cartridge part and or micro controller that you can install into the handheld to play the games you make from the microsoft make arcade website I seen these go for like 30 bucks easily! So that's 30 bucks per cartridge and or microcontroller for each little game that you make if you want to play with the handheld game boy device there! So that's where it gets pricey the fact that you're making a tiny game that shouldn't be too expensive in the first place it was killing this!

[@user-ue9jc3td6w]

how to turn it off

[@FileCabenit]

do you need a micro bit for it

[@jdonwells]

MakeCode Python isn't Python.

[@elecfreaks]

micropython~🤣

[@kevinmcaleer28]

Go on…

[@jdonwells]

@@kevinmcaleer28 MakeCode Arcade is really TypeScript underneath with translations. The so called Python is translated back and forth from TypeScript. The first difference you will notice is that MakeCode Arcade Python is statically typed. It has to be. So that isn't Python.
There is a Python as noted by Elecfreaks that is based on Micropython. It uses a different IDE and onboard interpreter. The documentation says it is a full implementation of Python 3. That is Python. But it doesn't have all the Arcade shortcuts that MakeCode gives us.

[@clintbeer]

🤷 "promo sm"