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. Will Tranmere Rovers triumph?

I showed them the basic drawer on the MakeCode site where you will find most of the coding blocks you need to start a micro:bit project (see below). I then showed an example using the ‘on start ...

Granted, it is reading 5 element groups from a button on the BBC micro:bit and not worrying about details such as intercharacter or interelement spacing or word spacing. But it is still a nice ...

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 ...

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, ...