The BBC Micro Bit, a tiny programming board aimed at giving children a taste of coding, is now available to everyone to buy. In March, the BBC started distributing a million of the diminutive boards ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Raspberry Pi has been a huge success story for Britain, giving millions of people an affordable way to tinker and learn with pocket-sized hardware. Now, the BBC is hoping to make a similar impact ...

In the Early 1980s, the BBC launched a project to teach computer literacy to a generation of British schoolchildren. This project resulted in the BBC Micro, a very capable home computer that showed a ...

Earlier this year the BBC announced that it planned to give one million students across the UK a programmable microcomputer, called the BBC Micro Bit, to help them learn the basics of coding. Now four ...

Adafruit has announced the availability and arrival of the BBC micro:bit development board to their online store, which is now available to purchase for $14.95. The micro:bit hardware is based on the ...

Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro:bit v2, a pocket-sized computer first launched in 2015 to help teach computer science. The first generation of this device ...

Earlier this month, the BBC unveiled the Micro:bit computer. Part of the Make It Digital initiative, the Corporation will distribute 1million MicroBits free in October to Year Seven children across ...