We took part in a coding workshop as the pocket sized computer got an update - see what we made and try them for yourself! Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro ...

Where would the world be today without Pong, perhaps a lot less fun? For people like [Linker3000] the game is an inspiration toward teaching the next generation of hackers to build and play their own ...

Classrooms, ready! micro:bits, ready! The Gladiators micro:bit competition asked 7 – 11 year olds to invent a gadget to help the Gladiators be their best. The competition closed on the 6th December ...

A group of Boulder-area educators will learn to program a micro:bit on Saturday. The inexpensive, pocket-sized, easy-to-code microcontroller can be put used is a wide variety of contexts, from robots ...

Every primary and secondary in Scotland should have received 20 micro:bits – so, what are they and how can teachers get the most out of them? However, unlike the keyboard on your desktop computer, ...

The BBC Micro:bit, while not quite as popular in our community as other microcontroller development boards, has a few quirks that can make it a much more interesting piece of hardware to build a ...

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; ...

On Saturday, March 30 at 10:30 a.m., the Swampscott Public Library, 61 Burrill St., will present a workshop on programming the BBC micro:bit. The micro:bit is a pocket sized computer that is just ...

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 ...