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 ...

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 ...

Measuring 4cm by 5cm, and designed to be fun and easy to use, users can create anything from games and animations to scrolling stories at school, at home and on the go - all you need is imagination ...

Pleased to see this – version 2 of the excellent Micro:bit STEM teaching aid is imminent – as I was lucky enough to be at the launch of the original, at the BBC ...

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 ...

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 ...

It promises to revive fond memories for a generation raised on the BBC Micro. Now the BBC has shrugged off calls to rein in its “imperial ambitions” by unveiling the BBC micro:bit, a successor to the ...

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 ...