Step Three: Wiring Up the Project First things first make sure your micro:bit is powered down.

Kitronik, the Nottingham based electronics and educational technology company that supplies schools across the world, has launched its latest product for use with the BBC micro:bit – the :Move Motor.

However, you don’t need to own a micro:bit to have fun playing with one! You and your child can take your first coding steps on the virtual micro:bit using a computer, tablet or phone.

Children can write codes to turn the micro:bit into a locator tool, for instance, by detecting the presence of another micro:bit tagged to their belongings.

It’s driven with a stepper motor which can test out combinations so fast that [Startup Chuck] needed to take 240 fps video and slow it down to make sure that the mechanism was behaving properly.