Make A Wish

With the launch of a new round of Microbit electronics courses in a number of Salisbury schools, what better way to show of the capabilities of the little Microbit board…

Coding Motors

Sorting out the components for next week's electronics lessons. We'll be learning about motor control which opens up a whole world of possibilities. Previous projects that have come out of…

Coding Kits Update

First Coding would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped test the Micro:bit kits we're developing. Whether you tested the kits to destruction, tried to find…

Meeting Microbit

I was fortunate enough to talk with the people at Microbit whilst attending the Bett Show this weekend. They were really surprised at some of the projects that have come out of First Coding's…

Water Quality Monitoring

In today's sessions we were looking at how we could use the Microbit to measure water quality. One idea was to use the light sensor, shining a light through the…

The Motor Control Kit

The school talks I recently gave on electronic toy hacking highlighted a problem that motor control for the Raspberry Pi and Microbit could be made a great deal simpler (and…