UNICEF’s Tinkering with Tech program is connecting technology with design thinking to build the classroom of the future, one ...

Schoolchildren have used the mini-computers to learn to code The BBC Micro Bit mini-computer - used by millions of schoolchildren across the world - will receive its first major update since 2016. The ...

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 ...

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 Micro Bit was given to schoolchildren across the UK in March The Micro Bit mini-computer is to be sold across the world and enthusiasts are to be offered blueprints showing how to build their own ...

It’s a rather odd proposition, to give an ARM based single board computer to coder-newbie children in the hope that they might learn something about how computers work, after all if you are used to ...

The Micro:bit is a fun microcontroller development platform, designed specifically for educational use. Out of the box, it’s got a pretty basic sound output feature that can play a single note at a ...

The BBC micro:bit’s formal product partners have led on the software, hardware, design, manufacture and distribution of the device, whilst our formal product champions are playing a vital role in ...

Inside the BBC Radio Theatre this morning, the enthusiasm was palpable. From the BBC's director general to senior executives from technology companies, from Dara O'Briain to teenage techies, everyone ...