News

The BBC micro:bit has been with us for about eighteen months now, and while the little ARM-based board has made a name for itself in its intended market of education, we haven’t seen as much … ...
The program in the screenshot above is for a very simple dice program (or should I say “die” as it is singular) that will display a random number between 1 and 6 when someone shakes the micro:bit.
The Micro Bit’s LEDs are just red. It could manage a colour screen of course if you fitted one. I think 360 degrees is asking a lot from light pipes.
Children can program the micro:bit using Blockly, TouchDevelop or Python before loading their own projects over USB or using a smartphone app. The display can be used to show messages or ...
Playing with the new micro:bit - three MakeCode projects for you to try out. We took part in a coding workshop as the pocket sized computer got an update - see what we made and try them for yourself!
The BBC micro:bit is a tiny little motherboard designed in partnership with Microsoft, and it is a wonderful way to get kids into coding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
Much like the original BBC Micro from the ’80s, or the Raspberry Pi, the BBC Micro:Bit has proved a successful way to encourage programming and hardware hacking in younger generations and ...
To try and propel the Micro:bit to a comparable echelon of usefulness and ubiquity—about 80 percent of British schools had at least one BBC Micro—the BBC will give a Micro:bit to every child ...
The CEDAR Center has been responsible for hosting the Wyoming edition of the NSA GenCyber camp during 2018 and 2019. During this camp, students can progress through increasingly complex stages of ...
Seventh grader Hayden Upson creates micro:bit, a pocket-size calculator Bayfield Middle School seventh grader Hayden Upson has grown from being just a typical adolescent surfing the web on his ...