For this example you will also need to copy this Python code to a MicroPython editor and use the editor to flash the Python code onto the micro:bit. I also made a theremin-like musical toy! Like ...

As coordinator for the SJCOE’s Code Stack Academy, Stockton’s first not-for-profit coding school, he’s familiar with micro:bit and uses it in classroom and lab programs.

With MakeCode, we will build out our instructions using blocks. These instructions will program a microcontroller called the micro:bit. It is pretty cool.

She remembers a Key Stage 2 pupil who chose to code a short film in Scratch rather than make a slideshow when he was asked to give a presentation. He had learnt to code with a micro:bit.

We always have mixed feelings about the drag-and-drop programming languages. But we were impressed with [SirDan’s] Morse code decoder built with the graphical MakeCode. Granted, it is reading… ...

It has taken a long time for the BBC micro:bit to finally reach students in the UK. The device was first announced in 2015, but it has gone through a series of delays that kept pushing its release ...

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 ...

The Micro Bit is just the tip of the BBC's new initiative, however. The organisation is developing classroom resources under its Bitesize and School Report brands, as well as a slate of events to ...

The BBC intends the micro:bit to inspire “a new generation to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology”, in an era when — unlike the 80s — mobile computing devices are ...

We will use coordinates in this micro:bit lesson. However, with micro:bit, the layout of our screen will look different to the above (or Maths class), particularly the y-axis.