A dozen teenagers in military fatigues sit quietly fiddling with small devices in antistatic bags, waiting, like the other kids around them, for further instruction. A teacher murmurs a few sentences ...

The BBC Micro:bit was first introduced back in 2015, as an affordable means for children to start learning the basics of programming. The tiny computer, similar to the Raspberry Pi, has since been ...

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The BBC micro:bit is a tiny single-board computer designed to be distributed to students. First introduced five years ago, about five million micro:bit devices have been distributed to teachers and ...

The BBC has a long history of supporting technology education in schools. The BBC Micro introduced a whole generation of students to computers, and more recently the Micro:bit is teaching today’s ...

About a year after announcing plans to distribute a million tiny computers to UK students, the BBC is now delivering micro:bit devices. The BBC micro:bit may not look like much of a computer, but it’s ...

Working with a number of partners, the BBC has unveiled the BBC micro:bit ­ a pocket-sized, codeable computer for children. Up to one million devices will be given to every 11 or 12 year-old child in ...

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 ...

The BBC Micro:bit can now be bought commercially for the grand old sum of £13. If you also want a battery pack, USB cable, and a leaflet with some starter activities, it’ll cost a couple of quid more.

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 BBC launched the "Make it Digital" campaign early last year as a multi-pronged effort to get our young ones interested in coding and other creative pursuits within technology. A key piece of the ...

The rollout of the BBC micro:bit –- the credit-card sized device aimed at educating 1,000,000 kids about coding and technology in the spirit of the 80s BBC Micro computer -- has been delayed until ...