Pleased to see this – version 2 of the excellent Micro:bit STEM teaching aid is imminent – as I was lucky enough to be at the launch of the original, at the BBC ...

Details have been announced of version 2 of the BBC micro:bit educational computer. micro:bit v2 is built around a Nordic Semi nRF52833, which will run application code, Bluetooth stack and handle USB ...

Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro:bit v2, a pocket-sized computer first launched in 2015 to help teach computer science. The first generation of this device ...

One million micro:bits are being delivered to British school children to help teach STEM, but is it the right way to do things? 1. One million 11- to 12-year-old students will receive this 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 ...

Measuring 4cm by 5cm, and designed to be fun and easy to use, users can create anything from games and animations to scrolling stories at school, at home and on the go - all you need is imagination ...

The BBC micro:bit’s formal product partners have led on the software, hardware, design, manufacture and distribution of the device, whilst our formal product champions are playing a vital role in ...

The BBC micro:bit is a tiny little motherboard designed in partnership with Microsoft, and it is a wonderful way to get kids into coding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go with ...

The BBC micro:bit single board ARM computer aimed at education does not feature as often as many of its competitors in these pages. It’s not the cheapest of boards, and interfacing to it in all but ...