Q: You must be pleased with the launch of the BBC Micro:bit and its embracing of Bluetooth Smart? A: Absolutely. One million UK school kids will be receiving a BBC Micro:bit and for many of them this ...

The Bluetooth SIG and Lancaster University have teamed up to create a custom Bluetooth LE profile for the BBC’s micro:bit educational microcontroller board. Martin Woolley, programme manager at ...

Kids! You won’t have to hide your phone in your IT lessons later this year; you’ll be able to use them to code the BBC’s micro:bit mini computer instead. The BBC has teamed up with Samsung to create ...

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 ...