The first micro:bit was invented by the BBC and partners and launched in 2015, honouring the BBC’s legacy of computing that stretches back to the original BBC Micro computer of the 1980s. Our original ...

The micro:bit follows in the footsteps of another UK low-cost learn-to-code micro computer, the Raspberry Pi, but the aim was to create a learning device that is rather simpler to get started with ...

A tiny computer intended to encourage UK kids to get programming is finally being delivered to schools, some half a year later than originally planned.

Amy Mather, Digital Girl of the Year 2013, talks us through the meteorite game on the micro:bit: Mission to Mars - Live Lesson.

BBC micro:bit users and enthusiasts might be interested to know that Adafruit has created a new piece of kit to make prototyping with the micro:bit development board even easier. The Adafruit ...