When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For this project you'll just need a BBC micro:bit, as this comes with an accelerometer ...

Following this morning's announcement of the BBC's Micro Bit programmable computer, WIRED.co.uk takes a closer look at the new piece of technology, and speaks to one of the people behind its creation ...

The BBC is giving schools a million free micro:bit computers. It hopes it will kick-start a coding revival. ... with a new ARM Cortex M0 processor and new features such as an accelerometer, ...

Even though it appears sparse, the micro:bit is actually slightly more user-friendly than a Raspberry Pi; besides its 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 processor and 16K of RAM (sounds like a pithy number but ...

The second micro:bit detects gestures with its accelerometer, and then sends the relevant commands to the robotic arm’s micro:bit over its built-in radio link. The arm controller then commands ...

Kniwwelino is the latest in a line of micro:bit-inspired projects that we’ve seen, but this one comes with a twist: it uses an ESP8266 and WiFi at the core instead of the nR51 ARM/BTLE chip.That ...

Just how fast can a BBC micro:bit travel? Pretty fast it would seem. Schools across the country are taking part in the challenge to build a rocket car using a micro:bit.

BBC Micro:bit will hopefully help kids learn to code, like the BBC Micro before it. ... Samsung provided an Android app; NXP provided the USB controller, accelerometer, and magnetometer; ...

The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer that you can code, ... On-board motion detector or 3-AXIS digital accelerometer that can detect movement and tell other devices you’re on the go.

Starting from this October, Year 7 students will receive their free Micro:bit—about a million students, all told. Teachers will get them a little earlier, in September, so that they have a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For this project you'll just need a BBC micro:bit, as this comes with an accelerometer ...