Microbits - allowing access over usb

[Sheridan]

It seems our staff have found a cupboard of microbits and now want to use them again - when we set them up a couple of years ago we allowed access to them from our VirtualBox VMs, which we also use for a development evironment

 

Problem is virtualbox in Windows 10 doesn't allow drag and drop anymore - it used to, but nothing we've tried (and we've been trying for months) gets rid of that annoying 'no entry' icon when you try and drag a file into the VM - and this is exactly what they need to do to drop a file onto the microbits.

 

I did consider allowing USB for the microbits directly through the PC - which isn't really a solution as whitelisting the Class ID for the microbits is effectively allowing all USB removeable storage, which we don't want to allow - I've checked and the GUID for a microbit is the same as a Kingston USB pen, and a Sandisk and so on!

 

So, with our VMs broken I've looking for an alternative route, has anyone else been using the microbits sucessfully? I have to admit I'd forgotten we had them, as they'd been unused since the first flurry of activity a couple of years ago!

[mavhc]

You can program them via serial over usb using micropython and Mu editor.

 

But for faking UFD http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/166263-bbc-microbit-restricted-installation-allowed-thru-gpo.html

[timbo343]

It seems our staff have found a cupboard of microbits and now want to use them again - when we set them up a couple of years ago we allowed access to them from our VirtualBox VMs, which we also use for a development evironment

 

Problem is virtualbox in Windows 10 doesn't allow drag and drop anymore - it used to, but nothing we've tried (and we've been trying for months) gets rid of that annoying 'no entry' icon when you try and drag a file into the VM - and this is exactly what they need to do to drop a file onto the microbits.

 

I did consider allowing USB for the microbits directly through the PC - which isn't really a solution as whitelisting the Class ID for the microbits is effectively allowing all USB removeable storage, which we don't want to allow - I've checked and the GUID for a microbit is the same as a Kingston USB pen, and a Sandisk and so on!

 

So, with our VMs broken I've looking for an alternative route, has anyone else been using the microbits sucessfully? I have to admit I'd forgotten we had them, as they'd been unused since the first flurry of activity a couple of years ago!

 

I had the exact same issue but ours is on a more smaller scale as we as for encrypted USB drives for staff.

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/200343-usb-bitlocker-bbc-microbits.html