The BBC collaborates with 29 partners to send thousands of miniature computers to every grade 7 child in the UK. This is the BBC you're thinking of – the news organization – and this is not the first ...

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. The micro:bit was announced a year ago — the ...

It took longer than expected after the original announcement, but the BBC’s Micro:bit project started shipping to school age children in the U.K. in March. Now, the programmable mini-computer is ...

A new version of the pocket-sized BBC micro:bit computer is coming to schools worldwide, packed with new features designed to keep young students up-to-date with the latest hot trends in technology.

The BBC has unveiled the Micro:bit, the spiritual successor of the 8-bit, beige-box BBC Micro released way back in 1981. To try and propel the Micro:bit to a comparable echelon of usefulness and ...

The BBC announced the BBC Micro:bit, a new pocket-sized computer inspired by the classic BBC Micro, back in March. Now it (along with a roll call of significant partners) has unveiled the final design ...

In the Early 1980s, the BBC launched a project to teach computer literacy to a generation of British schoolchildren. This project resulted in the BBC Micro, a very capable home computer that showed a ...

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 ...