📣 We’re hiring! Join the Micro:bit Educational Foundation as an Embedded Software Engineer and help create open, inclusive tech that inspires young people to learn and code 💡 🔗 Apply or share: apply.workable.com/micro-bit-ed... #Hiring #Edtech #SoftwareEngineer

The original Arduino IDE was a game changer for makers, educators, and hobbyists. But did you know it was a fork of a fork?🍴 Not only that, but other companies later forked it as well to tweak it for their own needs! Have you seen or used these other versions? 👇🧵

Made a thing that makes me happy (how sad): an old RaspberryPi with a small screen and a serial console used as a terminal for smolBASIC (My First Text-based Language) that is running ON THE micro:bit! SmolBASIC is itself written in Python and can be extended by older children.

Oh man, I really REALLY wanted to be all in, but $225 + shipping, taxes, and import duties for an nRF52840 watch is a tough sell for me. Was also hoping the Time would at least look less like a fitness tracker, loved the original Time 2 look 🫤 Still incredibly exited that the Pebble is back! ⌚️🥳

🚨Our Generative AI Lab at Wharton is releasing its first Prompt Engineering Report, empirically testing prompting approaches. We find: 1) Prompting “tricks” like saying “please” do not help consistently or predictably 2) How you test against benchmarks matters a lot papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ViperIDE v0.5.2 is out: viper-ide.org #MicroPython #WebIDE

@juanlu.space Esto va a ser poco random, pero he estado mirando cosas de Python packaging con extra index URLs, y cada vez que busco algo en Google termino en un hilo creado por ti o donde respondes con info útil. Asi que tan solo quería darte las gracias! 😃

I'm working on wrapping the arm-none-eabi-gcc toolchain into a Python Package 📦🐍 for easy distribution and installation. Does anybody have any suggestions of an embedded project with complex build steps to test it? Or that uses as many of the toolchain executables as possible?

I pulled the trigger and launched the kickstarter for SPOKE this morning. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom... If you like it, consider supporting it or sending it to friends who might!

Been working with Intel Hex files & these are a couple of online tools I often use, in case you find them useful too! 1️⃣ www.fischl.de/hex_checksum... Useful to manually modify Intel Hex records. 2️⃣ nordicsemiconductor.github.io/nrf-intel-he... Quickly visualise & check memory regions a hex covers.

This is fantastic news for all Pebble fans out there! 🤩 Thanks @ericmigi.com and Google folks for making his happen!

If you’d like to get the latest BBC micro:bit posts on your home page, I’ve created a dedicated 🦋 feed just for that! 📢🌐 Follow it to stay updated and see what the #microbit community is sharing 🌟 bsky.app/profile/carl...

#micro:bit controlled Ferdinand the Furby has been giving me the stink-eye recently! I don't think he's impressed that Omnibot has had all the attention lately while he's left feeling exposed!

This is a musical USB-MIDI Bonsai tree. Each branch is a touch sensor made from insulated garden wire that triggers a sequence of MIDI notes. It was made using the SPOKE hardware that I'm Kickstarting. Sign up for updates here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

This is excellent news! 🎉 For any project targetting arm64/aarch64 testing in GH Actions required to either have a custom runner on your own Arm server (or something a #RaspberryPi) or using an emulator like QEMU. So I've been looking forward to these native runners for a while! 😃

Oh, look what I found rummaging through old drawers 🔎🗄️ Can anyone guess which #microbit board this is?

New Year, New PyCon UK! We're excited to announce that PyCon UK 2025 will be held in Manchester from 19th to 22nd September 2025. Expect a full program of talks, workshops, and sprints for all Pythonistas. We look forward to seeing you there! #PyConUK2025 #PythonProgramming #Pythonista

In line with my last post, I just saw a #MechanicalKeyboard that fits inside Altoids tins and it's just 🧑‍🍳😙🤌 www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKe...

It's been a while, but remember when Altoids tins were the goto project case for electronics? Even the BeagleBone was designed to fit inside! A bit of #maker nostalgia.

I've finally ported the Awesome micro:bit bot 🤖 to Bluesky!🦋 It automatically shares the latest entries from the Awesome #micro:bit list! So make sure to follow @awesomemicrobit.bsky.social if you want to be up-to-date with the coolest micro:bit projects, lessons & resources 🌟 #EduSky #EdTech #STEM

Merry Christmas! I hope Santa made his way to your homes without crashing as much as the one I made did. Made with a couple of MakeyBits.

If you'd like to see USB device access in VS Code (ex. for programming and debugging,) upvote this issue. github.com/microsoft/vs...

Feina ben feta d’un departament extraordinari. #BonNadal #iesferrancasablancas #steam #microbit #roboticaeducativa

I’ve always been a fan of the Pebble, even wrote an app for my Pebble Time Steel! And to this day I still wish the beatiful Pebble Time 2 had seen the light of day. But I had no idea it was actually featured in Resident Evil 7?! At least it'll forever live on there! 🧟‍♂️⌚️ www.reddit.com/r/pebble/com...

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. 🚀

Did you notice? With the CreateAI launch, we’ve also released the micro:bit wearable! 🎉 I've been looking forward to this one as well, as you can now easily attach your #microbit to your wrist, ankle, or toys, or anywhere else! Perfect for motion, AI, and creative coding fun! 🌟 #EduSky #EdTech #STEM

Researchers have found a way to turn off a webcam LED while in use. This is why it was so important during the #microbit design to ensure the mic🎙 LED was wired to its power instead of GPIO. It’s crucial to teach the next gen about privacy & security (or their absence) in the tech they use every day

It didn’t take long for @sparkfun.bsky.social to reach the peak number of (electronic) followers! ⚡🤖

I love seeing projects like this, a collab between PrintLab, @loretod.bsky.social & Bill Siever, where the #microbit powers 3D printed, low-cost, replicable and extensible assistive technology 🌟 A perfect example of tech for good! 👏💡 www.zeroday.camp/empowering-a... #Accessibility #STEM #3DPrinting

Still blown away that you can literally cut down a Wii PCB and end up with a fully functional tiny GameCube! 🤯 For reference, here’s what a full motherboard looks like before the dremmel:

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...

Not me only just connecting the dots that @carlosperate.bsky.social maintains arm-none-eabi-gcc-action 🤣

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