As part of an initiative to bring more technology education to schools in the UK, BBC has introduced the mMicro:bit system, a little board with microchips and sensors embedded that is small in size ...

Following on from the launch of the official BBC micro:bit last week after a few delays and tweaks to its hardware. The BBC has now started supplying year 7 students throughout the UK with the pocket ...

Samsung has teamed up with the BBC and the company is launching the official BBC micro:bit app for Android. The app was announced last week and it is designed to help young people code on 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 ...

The Micro:bit is a fun microcontroller development platform, designed specifically for educational use. Out of the box, it’s got a pretty basic sound output feature that can play a single note at a ...

British school children will need to keep waiting for their Micro:bit, the compact, low-cost, Raspberry Pi-like computer that the BBC revealed last year as part of its “Make it Digital” campaign, ...

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 ...