Blocks Gallery
Gallery of the blocks and their images for micro:bit.

Since winning her election back in November and then being sworn into office last month, Winsome Sears has been making her mark as Virginia’s first black female Lieutenant Governor, and Monday was no exception.

Whether it was via a prankster or it legitimately went missing, the gavel that is normally used to bring the State Senate in order was nowhere to be found. So Lt. Gov. Sears decided to improvise – courtesy of a high-heeled shoe.

As she did so, Sears uttered a quote which, like the shoe itself, is the stuff of legends.

“One shoe can change your life. Just ask Cinderella,” she stated, according to Washington Post reporter Laura Vozzella, who tweeted out the below image of the now-famous shoe:

A cheatsheet for how to do simple tasks on the micro:bit.

This cheatsheet tells you how to display images, use buttons, detect gestures and even play music!

Jennifer Sey

I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice. //

The red tag on the back pocket of the jeans I handed over to the Russian girls used to be shorthand for what was good and right about this country, and when I think about my trip to Moscow, so many decades ago, I still get a little choked up.

But the corporation doesn’t believe in that now. It’s trapped trying to please the mob—and silencing any dissent within the organization. In this it is like so many other American companies: held hostage by intolerant ideologues who do not believe in genuine inclusion or diversity. //

I’ll always wear my old 501s. But today I’m trading in my job at Levi’s. In return, I get to keep my voice.

Micro:Bit Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by aleciko
Cheat sheet for the BBC Micro:Bit

1. Open a command prompt.
2. Execute the mountvol command which will tell you all the volumes on your system and give you the GUID of them.
3. Execute with this format:
   chkdsk "\?\Volume{eb38d03c-29ed-11e2-be65-806e6f6e6963}"

For everyone for whom this doesn't work, if you are using a volume name with chkdsk, make sure that you do not have a trailing backslash after the right brace of the UUID!!

This table lists the minimum sizes of grounding conductors for grounding raceways and equipment.