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 ...

The BBC Micro Bit is the latest tiny programming board to arrive. As the name suggests, the BBC is hoping that the Micro Bit will follow in the footsteps of the legendary BBC Micro and inspire a new ...

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 ...

The BBC Micro Bit, a tiny programming board aimed at giving children a taste of coding, is now available to everyone to buy. In March, the BBC started distributing a million of the diminutive boards ...

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 ...

The BBC micro:bit has been with us for about eighteen months now, and while the little ARM-based board has made a name for itself in its intended market of education, we haven’t seen as much of it in ...

The micro:bit is a small, low-cost IoT platform targeting schools, but it’s also a handy way to learn programming, especially Python. The platform is based a Nordic nRF52833 SoC. As with many ...

The BBC's Micro Bit finally launched last week just as the children headed off for the Easter holidays. Many won't get their hands on the tiny computers until they return from their spring break in ...

I was pondering again on the potential for Raspberry Pi to work with the bbc’s new micro:bit. – it seems to me that mains-powered display-enabled child-friendly Raspberry Pi would make a great host ...

The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based children in October. The device - which features a programmable array of ...