In the CBBC series The Dumping Ground, Izzy, Dita and Erin use the BBC micro:bit to create a radio door alarm to monitor the door to their secret den. They set up a trap as they want to find out who ...

See the micro:bit used as an alarm for the secret den in The Dumping Ground and then have a go at the activity. Make an indoor-outdoor thermometer. videoMake an indoor-outdoor thermometer Watch as So ...

SHANGHAI, April 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Global BBC micro:bit challenge do your :bit announced its winners from each region earlier this week. According to DFRobot, partner and organiser of the event, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...