The tiny BBC micro:bit computer board has gone up for public pre-orders. The device was originally designed for educational purposes and is currently being distributed to around a million Year-7 ...

Following on from the distribution of the new BBC micro:bit pocket mini PC to all 11-12 year-old UK students, the BBC has today announced that the small micro PC is now available to pre-order directly ...

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 ...

The BBC micro:bit is to be made available to buy in the UK by element14, the manufacturing partner for the BBC micro:bit project. The move, part of an exclusive 15 month contract, follows the gifting ...

The aim is also to encourage teachers to discuss the technology, and coding in particular, in the classroom. For this, element14 is asking educators to register on their community portal and to upload ...

While almost all of the electronic distributors, hobbyist sites, and online electronic shops have the BBC micro:bit available for pre-order (officially available starting next July), thanks to ...

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 ...

Classrooms, ready! micro:bits, ready! The Gladiators micro:bit competition asked 7 – 11 year olds to invent a gadget to help the Gladiators be their best. The competition closed on the 6th December ...

Lucy Coy, co-founder of HeadteacherChat, tells us how primary school teachers can make the most of the BBC micro:bit resources by getting access to training and classroom activities. HeadteacherChat ...