Q: You must be pleased with the launch of the BBC Micro:bit and its embracing of Bluetooth Smart? A: Absolutely. One million UK school kids will be receiving a BBC Micro:bit and for many of them this ...
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 Bluetooth SIG and Lancaster University have teamed up to create a custom Bluetooth LE profile for the BBC’s micro:bit educational microcontroller board. Martin Woolley, programme manager at ...
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; ...
It promises to revive fond memories for a generation raised on the BBC Micro. Now the BBC has shrugged off calls to rein in its “imperial ambitions” by unveiling the BBC micro:bit, a successor to the ...