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 ...

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 ...

Image: BBC The BBC had started delivering the first of its Micro Bit programming boards to students, a project which it hopes will help create the next generation of coders and tech entrepreneurs ...

You might wish to program a micro:bit somewhat closer to the metal with the Mbed toolchain, but even if that is the case it’s still of interest to read a dissection of its official stack.

Much like the original BBC Micro from the ’80s, or the Raspberry Pi, the BBC Micro:Bit has proved a successful way to encourage programming and hardware hacking in younger generations and ...

Having the required computational thinking is vital for their future.” Mannapperuma’s micro:bit Sri Lanka User Group (SLUG) is a non-profit organisation run by some 150 volunteers drawn from ...

Starting from this morning, March 22, about a million teachers and students across the UK will begin to receive a free BBC Micro:bit computer. The idea is to get an ...

Micro:bit is programmed over Bluetooth, but also – I am guessing – over its edge-connector. So how about a HAT (Raspberry Pi add-on boards are called Hardware Attached on Tops – like Capes for ...

The BBC Micro has become an iconic piece of kit so, as the corporation launches Micro Bit, can it replicate its success?