Items tagged with micro bit

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 19, 2016

BBC Micro Bit Computer To Empower Kid Coders Around The Globe

Depending on how old you are and where you went to school, you might memories of jabbing a potato with nails, wiring it up with copper, and using the seemingly unlikely contraption to illuminate a light bulb. That was high tech stuff back in the day, but it's a different era and today's kids are playing with far... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, May 31, 2016

BBC’s $19 Micro Bit Raspberry Pi Rival Is Now Available For Anyone To Purchase

Last year, the BBC embarked on an ambitious project to help inspire children to code. The BBC’s “Make it Digital” initiative aimed to put one million Micro:bit computers into the hands of Year 7 students (11 and 12 year olds) in the UK for free, and drew on the expertise of software and hardware partners including... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Jul 07, 2015

BBC Reveals Production Micro Bit Computer, Hopes To Inspire One Million Kid Coders

Move over Raspberry Pi, there’s a new micro computer in town, and it’s geared [for now] primarily at British schoolchildren. We first brought you news about the Micro:bit in early March as a part of the BBC’s “Make it Digital” campaign. At the time the device was still in the prototype stage, but the device is now... Read more...