It took longer than expected after the original announcement, but the BBC’s Micro:bit project started shipping to school age children in the U.K. in March. Now, the programmable mini-computer is ...

A new version of the pocket-sized BBC micro:bit computer is coming to schools worldwide, packed with new features designed to keep young students up-to-date with the latest hot trends in technology.

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 has unveiled the final design of its Micro Bit computer. The device will be given for free to million of UK children to help them learn to code and program devices. The BBC today unveiled the ...

A tiny programmable board designed as part of an educational initiative for UK kids to learn programming skills and originally distributed by the public service broadcaster, the BBC, to one million ...

To celebrate its first year, the BBC has released figures showing the positive impact the BBC micro:bit has had amongst UK students and teachers. Thirty years ago the BBC Micro got the nation ...

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 partnership of BBC Education, Micro:bit Educational Foundation and Nominet, will give nearly 700k micro:bits to UK schools and is boosted by familiar CBBC brands In an ever-evolving digital age, ...

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 ...

Primary schools around the UK are starting to receive their free classroom set of 30 BBC micro:bits as part of our BBC micro:bit – the next gen campaign. The deadline for UK primary school teachers to ...

The BBC micro:bit – the next gen campaign aims to equip children with digital skills and includes free resources and teacher training that's available to primary schools across the UK. The deadline ...