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. Up to one ...
The BBC collaborates with 29 partners to send thousands of miniature computers to every grade 7 child in the UK. This is the BBC you're thinking of – the news organization – and this is not the first ...
I enjoy and use electronics every day, but I will be honest, I never thought I’d be writing a blog post about them. Why, you might ask? Well, I have my degree in Elementary Education, and the last ...
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 ...
In 2012 the BBC decided to produce a computer chip that would teach children how to code. But now, almost four years after the decision to build the BBC Micro Bit, schools in the UK are yet to get ...
The Microsoft MakeCode platform is a free online blocks-based programming tool that's used to write the code that tells the micro:bit hardware what you want it to do. It’s very easy to use and allows ...
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 ...
A tiny programming board developed by the BBC to encourage UK kids to take up coding and kick-start a new wave of entrepreneurs is now available in the US. The BBC micro:bit was created by the BBC and ...
Farnell, in partnership with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation, has announced that it has reached the milestone of having manufactured and distributed more than 10 million BBC micro:bit computers.
Coding is for everyone! That’s the big message we want to get out there as part of our micro:bit – the next gen campaign… With this in mind, we spoke to a primary school teacher, a digital learning ...