It’s a rather odd proposition, to give an ARM based single board computer to coder-newbie children in the hope that they might learn something about how computers work, after all if you are used to ...

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 ...

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 has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11- and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming. Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March; ...

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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 ...

What’s weird is the Micro Bit is actually kind of cool. It’s got lights, an accelerometer and compass, and a couple of buttons. It also can be programmed with an iOS or Android app over Bluetooth, so ...

The BBC has begun delivering its tiny Micro:bit programmable computers to students today, with every Year 7 in the UK due to receive theirs over the next few weeks. The spiritual successor to the BBC ...

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 ...

The rollout of the BBC micro:bit –- the credit-card sized device aimed at educating 1,000,000 kids about coding and technology in the spirit of the 80s BBC Micro computer -- has been delayed until ...

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 ...

"Just as we did with the BBC Micro in the 1980s, we want to inspire the digital visionaries of the future," said BBC Director-General Tony Hall. There are a number of strings to the Make it Digital ...