The rollout of the BBC micro:bit –- the credit-card sized device aimed at educating 1,000,000 kids about coding and technology in the spirit of the 80s BBC Micro computer -- has been delayed until ...

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 ...

The BBC has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11- and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming. Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Back in 2016, the BBC gave a million tiny computers to UK school kids for free as part of its Make It Digital project. The micro:bit boards were designed as learning tools to help get youngsters into ...

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In 2012 the BBC decided to produce a computer chip that would teach children how to code. But now, almost four years after the decision to build the BBC Micro Bit, schools in the UK are yet to get ...

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 ...

We’re calling on primary school teachers around the country to harness the power of the Gladiators and fire up children’s imaginations. The BBC micro:bit is such a versatile device, and we hope pupils ...

We at Team micro:bit will take any opportunity to celebrate how cool robots are, but did you know there’s now a yearly event about it? The Silk Mill Museum in Derby, which is currently reinventing ...