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BBC micro:bit NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER

jwatson

Great news BBC micro:bits are streaming off our production lines as we speak ready for stocking ETA mid July!image

 

The BBC will have given away 1,000,000 FREE BBC micro:bits in total by tomorrow (31st May) to Year 7 students (age 11-12) in UK schools who applied and were lucky to be pledged them.

 

If you would like to preorder, Premier Farnell companies have exclusive sale on minimum order quantities of 90+ across the range.

 

Check out our main BBC micro:bit page and preorder today the 4 pack sizes on sale from CPC or Farnell @ micro:bit

 

Happy coding!

 

Share your comments on R&D and what you would do with the board or what you think would make a great project for youngsters to do here?...

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    Wow - This is great that schools and other institutions can order in quantity without having to worry about availability, and no significant setup effort for teachers, i.e. just use a browser.

    The ease of use of the website is an eye-opener. Everything is well executed it seems.

    Given the fairly sophisticated hardware on board, it could be appealing to universities too, perhaps not EE courses, but Information Systems or Computer Science courses, for use in lab projects.

    I love that several programming options are supported from day 1, for example micropython - this was just a couple of mouse-clicks away, all ready to run.

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    Really great that the BBC has made it this easy to use, and the website looks pupil and teacher-friendly with short to-the-point worksheets and what looks like a lot of resources.

    And so glad it has good, modern hardware that any aspiring computer scientist or engineer could and would want to make use of - it would have been a sorrowful thing to have pushed the

    original 'codebug' design on school kids.