Adding your own images

Create your images

You can turn each pixel on the micro:bit's display on to varying brightnesses, using the syntax shown below.

Download our design worksheet for more help!

myImage = '00000:24642:57975:24642:00000'
display.show(Image(myImage))

Create as many images as you need for your dice, giving each one a different name.

Make a list

Once you have finished designing your images, put them in a list!

If I had three images, called imageOne , imageTwo , imageThree - my list would look like this:

myImages = [imageOne, imageTwo, imageThree]

Define your list after you have defined the images, but before you try to display them.

Use random choice

Now you have a list with all of your images in, you can tell the micro:bit to display a random image, instead of a random integer.

Change:

roll = randint(1, 6)
display.show(roll)

to

roll = choice(myImages)
display.show(Image(roll))

Test this out - does your micro:bit show a random image when you roll it?

What happens to your second micro:bit, which is receiving messages over the radio?

Edit the second micro:bit

To find out more about the code on the second micro:bit click here.

Unplug your original micro:bit and plug in the new one.

Open a new file in Mu, then copy-and-paste the second micro:bit code (if you have already been working on the second micro:bit's code, then carry on using your version).

Edit radio.config(channel=7) to be your channel number.

Edit display.show(message) to this new code:

display.show(Image(message))

Test your code - roll your original die (make sure it has power!) and check that both micro:bits show your images.