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he BBC has revealed the final design of its Micro:Bit computer in a launch event in London. The single-board computing device, unveiled back in March, will be given free to every child starting secondary school in the UK this autumn as part of the corporation’s Make It Digital initiative.
Designed and funded with a partnership of 29 companies, including ARM, Barclays, Microsoft, Samsung, Freescale and Nordic Semiconductor, the Micro:Bit device will act as an introduction to computer science, to tie in with the UK's newly refreshed digital curriculum.
The BBC also announced that it will be forming a non-profit organisation around the Micro:Bit brand and making the hardware open-source. That will allow hardware companies to alter and sell Micro:Bit devices "in the UK and internationally". (At first glance it appears to be a similar arrangement as used by Arduino.)
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