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

Never before can I say I’ve been able to feel the brimming excitement of 1 million 10 and 11-year-olds across the UK – until today – as the BBC microbit finally landed on my doorstep, along with ...

Primary school teacher Manon Watkins has been teaching children to code using the BBC micro:bit for five years at schools in Wales. She was looking into different tools that could help her pupils ...

Animations create an illusion of movement when we have images flowing in a certain sequence or order. In our last lesson on micro:bit, we saw how our LED lights could be used to make images. Those ...

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 ...

Take a look below to find out the answers to the most commonly asked questions about the BBC micro:bit. Please be aware that some of the links below will take you away from the BBC. Registration for ...

Way back in 1981, the BBC gave almost every school in the United Kingdom a computer. The BBC Micro, made by Acorn Computers, was a beige box that looked a lot like a typewriter and taught children how ...

Wearables are items that can be worn. In recent times, people look at how technology can be fused with wearables to help people in their everyday lives. So, wearable technology is now often worn as an ...