The BBC has developed a computer to be used by thousands of students across the UK. While not very powerful in terms of hardware, it comes with an interpreted language that will get students writing ...

Micro:bit Educational Foundation has annonced a Python editor for the BBC micro:bit educational single-board computer, “purpose-built to address the hurdles learners usually face in working with the ...

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 ...

Back to the future of Computing? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There seems to be an influx of devices claiming that they will ...

Back to the future of Computing? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There seems to be an influx of devices claiming that they will ...

The micro:bit is a small, low-cost IoT platform targeting schools, but it’s also a handy way to learn programming, especially Python. The platform is based a Nordic nRF52833 SoC. As with many ...

Deliberately invoking the legacy of the BBC Micro of the early 1980s, the device is aiming to change the emphasis from consumption to creation when it comes to young people and technology. As well as ...

The clock appears to be running about 0.7% slow (at 23C). It's easy to dismiss this as poor time keeping on a microcontroller but the micro:bit V2 has a crystal (listed in BOM) and all is fine in ...