I enjoy and use electronics every day, but I will be honest, I never thought I’d be writing a blog post about them. Why, you might ask? Well, I have my degree in Elementary Education, and the last ...

If you have registered for and received your BBC micro:bits, you may now be looking for some supporting teaching resources and materials. We’ll explain exactly how to prepare for your assembly and how ...

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 ...

It's National Apprenticeship Week! As part of our BBC micro:bit – the next gen campaign, we spoke to apprentices Coel and Matilda and student Lowena about why the micro:bit matters. They told us how ...

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 ...

This article was first published in the October 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional ...

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 ...

A tiny programming board developed by the BBC to encourage UK kids to take up coding and kick-start a new wave of entrepreneurs is now available in the US. The BBC micro:bit was created by the BBC and ...

The Micro:bit is a very neat piece of hardware that, frankly, we don’t see enough of. Which made us all the more interested when [Manoj Nathwani] wrote in to tell us about the gorgeous 3D printed RGB ...

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 ...