PORT ANGELES — Children ages 10-14 can register to receive a free BBC micro:bit kit through the North Olympic Library System. To register for a kit, visit www.nols.org. The micro:bit is a pocket-sized ...

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’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 ...

Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go with ...

Music students that have just received their BBC micro:bit mini PC as part of the BBC’s UK schools project to give all 11-12 year-old UK students a mini PC to use and program. Might be interested in a ...

The BBC Micro Bit mini-computer - used by millions of schoolchildren across the world - will receive its first major update since 2016. The new model includes a speaker and microphone, as well as ...

Here's a lockdown challenge for young Gadget Masters: build an ecopod, with the BBC micro:bit board and the Kitronik Smart Greenhouse Kit. It's a STEM project kit that's intended to provide an ...

Farnell, which manufactures and distributes the BBC micro:bit, is rolling out a programme called ‘super:bit’ in Norway. The project is a collaboration between the national science centres in Norway, ...