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BBC Micro Bit Opens Preorders to the Public
If you’re one of the million lucky year 7 students, you’ll already be very familiar with the BBC Micro Bit, but for the rest of us, the tiny computer has so far remained out of reach and restricted to educational purposes. While there are many other tiny computers out there…
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BBC Micro Bit Shipping Date Revealed
BBC’s Micro Bit pocket-sized and programmable computer is an amazing little piece of technology, but the best of all is that one million of them will be given free to any year 7 pupils across the UK. Originally the BBC Micro Bit should have started shipping out October last year,…
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BBC Micro Bit Delayed To 2016
The BBC Micro Bit is an intriguing low-cost device to help youngsters develop a keen interest in programming. Unfortunately, the original October roll-out has been cancelled after power supply problems “affected a small number of devices”. According to a BBC spokesperson: “We’re expecting to start sending them out to teachers…
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BBC Micro Bit Computer’s Finalized Design Revealed
The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit computer and it brings along a few changes over the earlier shown prototypes. The Micro Bit is a pocket-sized computer and that even goes for child-sized pockets and there is a reason for that. The Micro Bit is not…
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BBC “Make it Digital” Scheme to Give 1 Million Micro-Computers to Kids
Back in the 1980s, the BBC, as part of a new computer literacy initiative, launched its own computer, the BBC Micro (a modified Acorn), in an effort to educate children about emerging information technology. Now, over thirty years later, the BBC are repeating the enterprise with the Make it…
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