The BBC is set to continue its history in educational computing with the Micro:bit. First displayed in March, the broadcaster just revealed the final design and programming environment of the tiny ...

There is a whole generation of computer scientists, software engineers, coders and hackers who first got into computing due to the home computer revolution of the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Machines ...

As [Paul Bardini] explains on the Thingiverse page for his “Micro:Bit Hand Controller”, the Bluetooth radio baked into the BBC’s educational microcontroller makes it an ideal choice for remotely ...

A little over 18 months after first announcing its intention to inspire the coders of tomorrow with its freely distributed micro:bit computer, the BBC has given the project independence. The ...

The BBC Micro:bit, while not quite as popular in our community as other microcontroller development boards, has a few quirks that can make it a much more interesting piece of hardware to build a ...

Anyone learning electronics using the BBC micro:bit mini PC may be interested in a new project which has been published to the official micro:bit website, explaining how to create your very own BBC ...

After experimenting with different versions of the BBC micro:bit, I decided to try out its add-ons/accessories that might help make my upcoming projects easier. Currently my choice is the micro:bit ...

The BBC micro:bit is a tiny single-board computer designed to be distributed to students. First introduced five years ago, about five million micro:bit devices have been distributed to teachers and ...

The BBC Micro:bit was first introduced back in 2015, as an affordable means for children to start learning the basics of programming. The tiny computer, similar to the Raspberry Pi, has since been ...

While almost all of the electronic distributors, hobbyist sites, and online electronic shops have the BBC micro:bit available for pre-order (officially available starting next July), thanks to ...

The Micro:bit mini-computer that has been given to around a million schoolchildren in Britain over the last eight months has plans to go global, after the BBC handed the project off to a specially ...

The way computing is taught in schools is going through its greatest upheaval since the subject was first introduced at the turn of the century. After considerable lobbying by the industry, ...