I made a theremin-like thing! It uses the micro:bit's light sensor, one of the buttons, and the speaker. While I hold down button A, a tone is played out of the speaker whose pitch is set by the ...

Freescale has also provided the motion sensors that enable the Micro:bit to react to movement and the direction it’s facing. The idea, of course, is these will allow children to create applications ...

Get up-to-the-minute weather reports by turning an environmental sensor and two BBC micro:bits into a mini weather station ...

The Micro:bit reads this sensor using an analog input, and displays the moisture level using its inbuilt LED matrix as a graph.

The Micro Bit also comes with a programmable LED screen and some embedded sensors.

It is called the Micro Bit and it was unveiled at this morning's launch of Make It Digital, an ambitious project aimed at getting us all to be a bit more creative with digital technology.

Playing with the new micro:bit - three MakeCode projects for you to try out We took part in a coding workshop as the pocket sized computer got an update - see what we made and try them for yourself!