Following on from the launch of the official BBC micro:bit last week after a few delays and tweaks to its hardware. The BBC has now started supplying year 7 students throughout the UK with the pocket ...

What’s weird is the Micro Bit is actually kind of cool. It’s got lights, an accelerometer and compass, and a couple of buttons. It also can be programmed with an iOS or Android app over Bluetooth, so ...

The BBC has unveiled the Micro:bit, the spiritual successor of the 8-bit, beige-box BBC Micro released way back in 1981. To try and propel the Micro:bit to a comparable echelon of usefulness and ...

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 ...