So, I’ve been making a few projects occasionally but one of my issues was that I use a microbit in a arcade shield (I think that’s what they’re called) and it has a slight issue of limited memory. When I just used microbits, I could use radio to connect them and send data (so one would be a controller with an output and the rest were holding data and doing calculations). Is a similar thing possible with one of the microbits running a makecode arcade game?
Try adding either the radio-broadcast or the radio extensions to your project. I don’t have my micro:bit equipment handy at the moment, but I’ll try to play with this over the weekend if you’re still having trouble.
Thanks, it seems to be working. A probably stupid question: is it possible to send images directly or would I have to send an array of colours and positions?
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An image is basically just an array of colors. If you send over the width and height of the image, you can just send an array of colors going left to right, top to bottom, and that way you don’t have to send position data with each color! If there isn’t an obvious way to send images (it sounds like there isn’t) then yeah, you need to send it as an array of colors (and width + height if those things can change, otherwise just hard code it in)
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