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 ...

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 was given to schoolchildren across the UK in March The Micro Bit mini-computer is to be sold across the world and enthusiasts are to be offered blueprints showing how to build their own ...

Making gadgets is no longer just for super-nerds. And to prove that we’re entering a golden age of tinkering, the BBC last week started sending its micro:bit computers to one million lucky UK students ...

Like the Raspberry Pi, the BBC Micro Bit had a goal of being foremost an educational device. Such an inexpensive computer works well with the current trend of cutting public school budgets wherever ...

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; ...

Inside the BBC Radio Theatre this morning, the enthusiasm was palpable. From the BBC's director general to senior executives from technology companies, from Dara O'Briain to teenage techies, everyone ...

The Micro Bit - a small computer designed to power internet-connected projects - is being handed out to thousands of British school children. The device has been made for Year Sevens ...

Details have been announced of version 2 of the BBC micro:bit educational computer. micro:bit v2 is built around a Nordic Semi nRF52833, which will run application code, Bluetooth stack and handle USB ...

The BBC Micro Bit mini-computer - used by millions of schoolchildren across the world - will receive its first major update since 2016. The new model includes a speaker and microphone, as well as ...