I’m always a bit shy about soldering ICs directly ... there is also an RC2014 backplane and I/O board available for the Micro’s expansion bus should you wish to have a go.

The BBC micro:bit single board ARM computer aimed at education does not feature as often as many of its competitors in these pages. It’s not the cheapest of boards, and interfacing to it in ...

bits and in order to generate and detect these waves the micro:bit has an antenna on top of the board. When one device transmits or sends a message, the other will receive the message and can be ...