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 ...

Here's a lockdown challenge for young Gadget Masters: build an ecopod, with the BBC micro:bit board and the Kitronik Smart Greenhouse Kit. It's a STEM project kit that's intended to provide an ...

A survey released by the BBC, which is a key partner for the project, only one year after the micro:bit's first version launched, showed that 90% of 11 to 12 year-olds who received the device said ...

The BBC is giving schools a million free micro:bit computers. It hopes it will kick-start a coding revival. This is the inside story ...

Opening the package, the micro:bit kit is rather minimalist. The board itself, a short USB lead, a battery box and a pair of AAA cells, an instruction leaflet, and the board itself.

It has now opened up availability to everyone. A single micro:bit can be pre-ordered for £12.99, or a starter kit – with a battery pack, USB cable and some basic tutorials – costs £14.99. A ...

My colleagues in BBC Learning had been working on the idea since 2012. Part of that was to take a prototype of the prototype of BBC micro:bit to events, testing the waters.

The BBC Micro has become an iconic piece of kit so, as the corporation launches Micro Bit, can it replicate its success?

The BBC has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11- and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming. Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March ...

Thanks to a partnership between Autodesk and the electronic kit manufacturers at Kitronik, new BBC micro:bit CAD Resources have been made available that are now free to download for those interested.

The BBC has defended its plan to supply a million schoolchildren with free micro:bit computers after it was criticised for delaying the launch until at least 2016. Problems with the micro:bit's ...

At the heart of the micro:bit controlled Kitronik Smart Greenhouse Kit is the Kitronik environmental control board. This board provides a variety of sensor inputs and connection points for the BBC ...