10 million micro:bits is a nice number of micro:bits 🎉🌏 🔗 microbit.org/news/2024-12... has great stats on impact and goals for @microbit.org Cheers to the awesome people and partners who have got us off to this excellent start. 🚀

Celebrating 10 million micro:bits around the world

Micro:bit Educational Foundation's 2024 highlights

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I missed these when JLCPCB announced it - so as I'm late to the party, would love to see creative and beautiful PCBs people have made with it (or similar services) jlcpcb.com/blog/multi-c...

Primary teachers - we're investigating physical computing in schools. Do you have 10 minutes to help us by completing a quick survey? More details and the link are here: computingeducationresearch.org/blog-primary.... Please do share with colleagues in your school and networks too!

Primary teachers: tell us about your experience of teaching physical computing - Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre

Calling all UK upper primary school teachers! Share your experience of teaching with the BBC micro:bit in our quick survey and help shape future research. Complete by the end of the term for a chance ...

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💫Excited to see the Micro:bit Educational Foundation launch CreateAI today on #WorldChildrensDay! 🎉 Use movement data with micro:bit to train a machine learning model and bring AI to life in code. Find out more: microbit.org/news/2024-11... #Microbit #CreateAI #EdChatIE

My first day here on BlueSky & I’m thrilled to share something really exciting we’ve been working on! ✨ CreateAI ✨ A hands-on tool to explore and create AI with #microbit. Train ML models with movement data & bring them to life with code! 👉 Learn more: microbit.org/news/2024-11... #AI #ML #EdTech

The Micro:bit Educational Foundation just launched micro:bit #CreateAI 🎉! microbit.org/ai/. I love it for playful, physical & creative learning about ML. Use movement data to train/test a model, then use that model in #MakeCode to make an AI thing! Mad excited to see what people make! #microbit

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Dive deeper into micro:bit CreateAI

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I’m going to be at PyCon AU this Friday for the education track. Give me a shout if you’re going to be there and want to talk #microbit or #python. Looking forward to a fantastic track of talks. #pyconau

www.youtube.com/watch?v=asji... This is such a beautiful and clever solution by @loretod.bsky.social, Bill Siever and PrintLab. I love that the micro:bit gets to go inside and play a part. For others that still love text see Loreto's blog www.zeroday.camp/empowering-a... #accessibility #microbit

Micro:bit Assistive Technology Dual Switch | Tap

YouTube video by PrintLab

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Join us on Monday (11/11/24) at 4PM EST as we talk about how to use the #Microbit and #3D_Design to create custom computer interactions for people with physical disabilities. #OpenAT #AssistiveTech www.meetup.com/assistive-te...

Empowering Accessibility: Using the Micro:bit and 3D Design as Switch Interface, Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 4:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for an informative virtual event that explores the innovative potential of the Micro:bit in creating accessible technology solutions. This session will delve into t

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There are fun days at work, then there are "building a magic-wand controlled pumpkin" days at work :D

I think my favourite change in the 2024 #MakeCode release for #microbit is one of the tiniest: make the border colour lighter/stand-out when blocks of the same colour are nested. Makes reading complex block maths so much easier 😃. All the changes at makecode.com/blog/microbi... #TeamCompSci

Any folks in #TeamCompSci tried using the #microbit Python Editor for more general #Python teaching, rather than "micro:bit first" stuff? With the simulator and the REPL you've got a browser-based REPL and some interesting possible inputs. Works with micro:bit Classroom too.

The lovely folks at the V&A Museum asked me to design an activity for kids (and their parents) that tied in with their 'Tropical Modernism' exhibition and had a digital component. It's running every Wed/Thur/Fri in the main museum. I went to do it yesterday with the 6yo and 3yo 🧵

I'm going to try and champion a few of my favourite #MakeCode for #microbit blocks that don't seem to get as much love as (I think 😅) they deserve! Hopefully others doing #computing in #TeamCompSci will have their own #faveblocks

OK #TeamCompSci. It looks like #EduSky is becoming the place of choice, so here's a starter pack of #Computing folks. Have I missed anyone? go.bsky.app/F7s6AyK #CASChat #CSEd Please share @mraharrison.bsky.social @csteachian.bsky.social @crossbynameonly.bsky.social @compscitsui.bsky.social

Join me for a free micro:bit Frogger 🐸 game-making online workshop on Wednesday 28th August 🕹️🎮😃 Workshop aimed at teachers and code club leaders. Click here to access a form to share your email address with me and I will send you a link to join👉 tinyurl.com/2afeyazw

You can swap in the function used to play 'tones' in #MakeCode for #microbit! Replace those robotic tones - your ears will thank you. The API is in Javascript, so I've exposed it in my (personal) pxt-musichelpers extension: github.com/jaustin/pxt-... eg makecode.microbit.org/_RMjhmMh2zTyq

Had a couple of questions since #emfcamp about the kickass shanties we all sang together. I've added a list of the more explicitly feminist sea shanties in the Auntie Shanty songbook - www.auntieshanty.org/posts/femini... to save people trawling through the (currently) 106 different songs.

The #clickskeyboard superpower I haven't heard mentioned yet is that if you swap "Globe" for "Control" you can use Ctrl+f/b/n/p for moving the cursor forward, backwards, down and up. Also a whole range of other useful shortcuts support.apple.com/en-gb/102650... - Ctrl+D for delete (not backspace)

I haven't refreshed the tracking status page for anything as much as I am doing for my #clickskeyboard. Customs. Release my thing! (I am still expecting the whole thing to be too long, but my aging Key2 needs a rest)

Here's an awesome thing from the desk of fediscience.org/@johnvidler - we've been working on improving accessibility of micro:bit in both hw and sw. This prototype add-on is one avenue. Please shout if you'd like to test it or know people who will be able to - johnvidler.co.uk/blog/the-acc...

Today I'm prepping for our #emfcamp workshop - trying to decide which messages birds might send to each other ("cat!", "hawk!") and how many pipe cleaners 30 children need to make birds! www.emfcamp.org/schedule/202... for the curious :D

My workshop proposal for #emfcamp to make pipe cleaner singing birds got accepted 🦜🐥🎉 - based on microbit-carlos.github.io/microbit-bir... but tuned more for kids and families. Anyone got cool #microbit bird ideas to add to it?

🚀🔭One of these boxes on SpaceX-29 contained a micro:bit! It's going to spend some time on the ISS with Andreas Mogensens www.dr.dk/skole/ultrab... as part of the DR ultra:bit project!

Dug out the old micro:bit V2 prototypes that had been buried since we packed the office up for COVID. I think my favourite thing about this particular board is the experiment to use the piezo speaker 'in reverse' as a cheaper alternative to a MEMS microphone.