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 ...

And, just for fun, let's display a picture of the Tardis on the micro:bit's LEDs, too! Oh but don’t forget – the micro:bit can’t play sound on its own – you need to add some speakers or ...

A few of the BBC’s rather neat micro:bit computers have ended up with very hot chips – clearly there is a design flaw. Malcolm commented on an early post on this subject and may have put his finger on ...

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 ...

The picture below is our solution on how to do this. To break down how it works: While the micro:bit is running, it checks if the A button has been pressed. It updates the value of the shift_key ...