The BBC is set to continue its history in educational computing with the Micro:bit. First displayed in March, the broadcaster just revealed the final design and programming environment of the tiny ...

A new coding tool will help make it easier for children to portably program a popular educational micro-computer on the fly. Researchers from Lancaster University's School of Computing and ...

In June and July, I discussed the .NET Micro Framework, the Tahoe Board, and the Tahoe SDK. Since then, the Tahoe SDK has been updated, and Microsoft Press has published Embedded Programming with the ...

*I dunno if this scheme will work or not, but if that freakin' Moog can run as part of a Google doodle, man, anything's possible nowadays. Imagine the awesome locked-room murder-weapons you could ...

In our regular series about makers, hackers and amateur technologists, BBC News meets the people giving the classic BBC Micro a new lease of life. Computer history is cruel. It is a story of the old ...