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 ...

The development environments are all accessible through the micro:bit website, on which no login is required for writing code. On clicking the “Create code” button you are presented with a ...

Chances are you've heard about microplastics or nanoplastics, the tiny bits of virtually imperceptible ... recently enabled the identification of micro and nanoplastics in human tissues, according ...

and the micro:bit can then run under battery power, enabling it to be used in all manner of ways and in conjunction with other devices. Examples of some of the projects possible with a micro ...

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 ...