Guide pupils to use the Scratch interface to drag the coding blocks into place, and trial shaking their micro:bits to ...

The BBC Micro Bit is the latest tiny programming board to arrive. As the name suggests, the BBC is hoping that the Micro Bit will follow in the footsteps of the legendary BBC Micro and inspire a new ...

THIS week, it is time to get down and boogie, because we will be making an automated mirror ball. It will require two power sources, because components, like everything from evil geniuses to artists, ...

Unlike many STEM toys that rely heavily on building-block pieces, the Rider kit is ready to use out of the box and you don’t ...

Micro:bits are being used to help primary school pupils get an understanding of machine learning. Back in 2015, the BBC micro:bit was created to help pupils understand the world of coding in a ...

The BBC is set to continue its history in educational computing with the Micro:bit. First displayed in March, the broadcaster just revealed the final design and programming environment of the tiny ...

Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go with ...

A dozen teenagers in military fatigues sit quietly fiddling with small devices in antistatic bags, waiting, like the other kids around them, for further instruction. A teacher murmurs a few sentences ...

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 ...

Starting from this morning, March 22, about a million teachers and students across the UK will begin to receive a free BBC Micro:bit computer. The idea is to get an ...

Following this morning's announcement of the BBC's Micro Bit programmable computer, WIRED.co.uk takes a closer look at the new piece of technology, and speaks to one of the people behind its creation.

Much like the original BBC Micro from the ’80s, or the Raspberry Pi, the BBC Micro:Bit has proved a successful way to encourage programming and hardware hacking in younger generations and bedroom ...