It has taken a long time for the BBC micro:bit to finally reach students in the UK. The device was first announced in 2015, but it has gone through a series of delays that kept pushing its release ...

A tiny computer intended to encourage UK kids to get programming is finally being delivered to schools, some half a year later than originally planned. The micro:bit was announced a year ago — the ...

The BBC Micro Bit is the latest tiny programming board to arrive. As the name suggests, the BBC is hoping that the Micro Bit will follow in the footsteps of the legendary BBC Micro and inspire a new ...

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 has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11- and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming. Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March; ...

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 ...

For a million kids in the United Kingdom, a version of Christmas came early this year. That is, if your version of Christmas includes a Micro: bit computer and the promise of a tech savvy future. On ...

Primary school teacher Manon Watkins has been teaching children to code using the BBC micro:bit for five years at schools in Wales. She was looking into different tools that could help her pupils ...

Way back in 1981, the BBC gave almost every school in the United Kingdom a computer. The BBC Micro, made by Acorn Computers, was a beige box that looked a lot like a typewriter and taught children how ...

After experimenting with different versions of the BBC micro:bit, I decided to try out its add-ons/accessories that might help make my upcoming projects easier. Currently my choice is the micro:bit ...