Jacdac Services for MakeCode

This project contains Jacdac host and client services for MakeCode editors.

• Read the documentation

Using this extensions

• Open your MakeCode editor (see supported editors)
• Go to the extension dialog and search for https://github.com/jacdac/pxt-jacdac
• Import the extension.

Supported editors

• micro:bit V2, https://makecode.microbit.org/
• Arcade, https://arcade.makecode.com/
• Maker, https://maker.makecode.com/

Developer section

Issues are tracked at https://github.com/jacdac/jacdac/issues .

To build all projects

sh mk.sh

To bump the release, use the CLI. Don't create releases from the MakeCode built-in GitHub editors.

sh bump.sh

Run makecode --pxt-modules to create files in pxt_modules/*, which help with TypeScript auto-completion.

To refresh the constants.ts files, build jacdac-spec (yarn buildspecs from jacdac-ts) from https://github.com/jacdac/jacdac-ts .

Deploying in WSL/Codespaces

If you do not have access to USB drive, launch a local web service and download the built binary.hex

mkc build --watch --serve

then navigate to the firmware web server

Building local projects

Typically you can do ``makecode` from any subproject to build for micro:bit. To use another config, for example arcade,

makecode -c ../mkc-arcade.json

You can also add --hw d5 or --hw d5,f4,... to build for specific hardware profiles.