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Im all for a four day working week. Has any one thought about the impact on schooling and education? Education is centred around a 5 day working week (at least in the U.K.). Presum…

It is reversible! The reversibility is largely provided by the PCB edge connector as you've identified. More details here [0] [0] - https://microsoft.github.io/jacdac-docs/ddk/desi…

A potential application area for TileCode is perhaps in countries where a laptop for every child to learn programming is out of the question. Entirely on device programming, a rela…

The new micro:bit will be compatible with MakeCode Arcade and TileCode via an additional shield [0]. [0] - https://makecode.com/blog/microbit/arcade-shield

Just FYI, TileCode is written using MakeCode Arcade: https://arcade.makecode.com

Not at all!

See also the open access paper: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3220000/3211335/lctes18main-...

In your opinion is 8-bit even a realistic choice anymore? Many ARM CPUs offer way more bang for your buck nowadays (unless i'm looking in the wrong place).

On the microbit [1] we run the display's LEDs in reverse to turn most of the display into a light sensor [2]. It can then be used in code [3]. [1] https://microbit.org [2] https://…

Yet they still have no way for me to buy them a beer. https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/892

For more information on the runtime (the underpinnings of MakeCode): https://lancaster-university.github.io/microbit-docs/ We are using the approach taken with micro:bit to support…

Yes, the runtime is actually built on ARM's mbed, which means their online IDE can also build micro:bit programs :)