Single-board computer designed by the BBC for use in computer education
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) micro:bit
micro:bit v1 (right) and v2 (left)
Developer
BBC Learning, BBC R&D, ARM Holdings, Barclays, element14, NXP Semiconductors, Lancaster University, Microsoft, Samsung, Nordic Semiconductor, ScienceScope, Technology Will Save Us, Python Software Foundation
The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or stylized as micro:bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the United Kingdom. It was first announced on the launch of BBC's Make It Digital campaign on 12 March 2015[5][6] with the intent of delivering 1 million devices to pupils in the UK. The final device design and features were unveiled on 6 July 2015[7] whereas actual delivery of devices, initially planned for September 2015 to schools and October 2015 to general public,[8] began on 10 February 2016.[9][10]
The device is described as half the size of a credit card[11] and has an ARM Cortex-M0 processor, accelerometer and magnetometer sensors, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, a display consisting of 25 LEDs, two programmable buttons, and can be powered by either USB or an external battery pack.[3] The device inputs and outputs are through five ring connectors that form part of a larger 25-pin edge connector. In October 2020, a physically nearly identical v2 board was released that features a Cortex-M4F microcontroller, with more memory and other new features.
^"Computing at School Community". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
^Cite error: The named reference v2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abCite error: The named reference arstech_anthony was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference Independent_Sherwin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"The Micro Bit - can it make us digital?". BBC News. 15 March 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
^"BBC gives children mini-computers in Make it Digital scheme". BBC News. 15 March 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
^"BBC and partners unveil the landmark BBC micro:bit". 6 July 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
^Cite error: The named reference delay-response was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"BBC micro:bit at Bett 2016". 17 September 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
^Sentance, Sue; Waite, Jane; Hodges, Steve; MacLeod, Emily; Yeomans, Lucy (2017). "Creating Cool Stuff: Pupils' Experience of the BBC micro:bit" (PDF). SIGCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education: 531–536. doi:10.1145/3017680.3017749. S2CID 18976762.
^Cite error: The named reference wired_hands was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
The MicroBit (also referred to as BBC MicroBit or stylized as micro:bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for...
vendor Micro Mobility Systems, Swiss company producing kickscooters Micro, a mostly-obsolete term for a microcomputer, e.g.: BBC Micro BBC MicroBit, or...
Micro Channel architecture, or the Micro Channel bus, is a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on...
MicroBit – modern successor to the project TV Micro Men – BBC documentary drama Micro Live – BBC television programme Making the Most of the Micro –...
Mindstorms, and other programmable hardware systems such as Arduino, BBC micro:bit, and the Calliope mini. The Cloud-approach of the Open Roberta Lab is...
SD memory card slot.[citation needed] MicroSD form-factor memory cards were introduced in 2004 by SanDisk at CeBIT and originally called T-Flash, and later...
Rectangular Micro QR Code places format information: 7.9 in the area of finder pattern and finder sub pattern. Format information is built as 18-bit sequence...
standard included 22-bit LBA as an option, which was further extended to 28-bit with the release of ATA-1 (1994) and to 48-bit with the release of ATA-6...
electronic circuit simulator that supports Arduino Uno microcontrollers, Micro:bit boards, or ATtiny chips. Code can be created using graphical CodeBlocks...
Micro QR codes: the smallest is 11×11 modules; the largest can hold 35 numeric characters, or 21 ASCII alphanumeric characters, or 15 bytes (128 bits)...
language – MicroPython – is however available expressly for microcontroller use, e.g. 32-bit ARM-based (such as BBC micro:bit) and 16-bit PIC microcontrollers...
on 7 July 2015 that it was launching a new computer device called the micro:bit that would be given to every Year 7 school pupil in the UK (amounting...
The Game Boy Micro (stylized as GAME BOY micro) is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on September...
Instruments TI-TXT (TI Text) Universal hex format, a hex file format by the BBC/Micro:bit Zilog hex format, a hex file format by Zilog Hex dump Hexadecimal notation...
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops...
brand name XMODS Micro RC. They were commonly compared to Tomy's Bit Char-G (sold in the U.S. as MicroSizers) and Takara's Digi-Q micro R/C lines. First...
particular "micro") declined significantly from its peak in the mid-1980s. The term is most commonly associated with the most popular 8-bit home computers...
differences), also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component...
Half-Byte Tiny Basic – adapted from Arduino BASIC. Tiny Basic on the micro:bit – adapted from Palo Alto Tiny BASIC. In 2002, Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal...
16-bit designs was that they were a lot more expensive and were still "a bit crap", offering only slightly higher performance than their BBC Micro design...
a Calliope mini free of charge. Calliope mini was inspired by the BBC micro:bit, which was distributed to pupils of grade seven in Great Britain. The...
Global Information
