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Connect the servo board and press A

Click Download, then unplug the USB cable. Switch the board off and put 3 AA batteries in the back, matching the + and − marks. Push the micro:bit into the board, lights facing out. Plug the left servo into Servo 1 and the right into Servo 2, brown wire at the top. Switch on: waving servos turn to the middle. Push a plastic arm onto each servo, tape a stick to it pointing up, put the board in its pocket and press A. Do both arms move?

The servo board from the front, with the micro:bit in its slot. The servo's plug, with its brown wire at the top, then the middle wire, then the orange wire at the bottom, is pushed onto the three Servo 1 pins on the top left edge of the board. The on and off switch is on the left edge, below the pins.