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 bedroom ...

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 ...

The BBC collaborates with 29 partners to send thousands of miniature computers to every grade 7 child in the UK. This is the BBC you're thinking of – the news organization – and this is not the first ...

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 ...

While almost all of the electronic distributors, hobbyist sites, and online electronic shops have the BBC micro:bit available for pre-order (officially available starting next July), thanks to ...

The BBC, along with Lancaster University and Nominet, has demonstrated a prototype method for safely and securely turning its micro:bit children’s computer into an internet of things (IoT) device. The ...

The BBC is getting into the hardware hacking craze with its second device aimed at school age children in the last 34 years. The British broadcaster recently unveiled the Micro:bit, a ...

Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro:bit v2, a pocket-sized computer first launched in 2015 to help teach computer science. The first generation of this device ...

THIS week, it is time to get down and boogie, because we will be making an automated mirror ball. It will require two power sources, because components, like everything from evil geniuses to artists, ...

Coding is for everyone! That’s the big message we want to get out there as part of our micro:bit – the next gen campaign… With this in mind, we spoke to a primary school teacher, a digital learning ...

I enjoy and use electronics every day, but I will be honest, I never thought I’d be writing a blog post about them. Why, you might ask? Well, I have my degree in Elementary Education, and the last ...