The BBC micro:bit single board ARM computer aimed at education does not feature as often as many of its competitors in these pages. It’s not the cheapest of boards, and interfacing to it in ...

Two programmable buttons activated when pressed. Use the micro:bit as a games controller. Pause or skip songs on a playlist. • On-board motion detector or “accelerometer” that can detect ...

The emotion badge project uses the micro:bit’s game controller-like buttons to display different expressions on its LEDs. Press the A button to make a smiling face, and the B button to make a ...

Mike Meakin got in touch with EW to describe an over-heating problem he found with his BBC micro:bit. It looks like that one of the chips on some micro:bits is getting very hot. It happened with his, ...

Details have been announced of version 2 of the BBC micro:bit educational computer. micro:bit v2 is built around a Nordic Semi nRF52833, which will run application code, Bluetooth stack and handle USB ...

Opening the package, the micro:bit kit is rather minimalist. The board itself, a short USB lead, a battery box and a pair of AAA cells, an instruction leaflet, and the board itself. Everything ...