As part of an initiative to bring more technology education to schools in the UK, BBC has introduced the mMicro:bit system, a little board with microchips and sensors embedded that is small in size ...

Samsung has teamed up with the BBC and the company is launching the official BBC micro:bit app for Android. The app was announced last week and it is designed to help young people code on the BBC ...

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

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 ...

There is a whole generation of computer scientists, software engineers, coders and hackers who first got into computing due to the home computer revolution of the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Machines ...

The Micro:bit is a fun microcontroller development platform, designed specifically for educational use. Out of the box, it’s ...

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 ...

Of course we used to use the term ‘micro’ to denote the size of computing device we were talking about. Mainframes were huge, then came mini computers (the size of your average office desk) and then ...

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 ...

Your Windows system tray and Mac OS X menubar have become prime real estate for highly functional micro-applications that provide easy access to information, settings, and tasks. Here are our top ten ...