{"id":36534,"date":"2019-08-02T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=36534"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T09:00:57","slug":"getting-started-with-the-bbc-microbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=36534","title":{"rendered":"Getting started with the BBC Microbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bbc_microbit_board_hardware.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" alt=\"BBC Microbit board\" title=\"BBC Microbit board\"><\/p>\n<p>Whether you are a maker, a teacher, or someone looking to expand your Python skillset, the <a href=\"https:\/\/microbit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC:Microbit<\/a> has something for you. It was designed by the British Broadcasting Corporation to support computer education in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.microbit.org\/hardware\/\" target=\"_blank\">open hardware board<\/a> is half the size of a credit card and packed with an ARM processor, a three-axis accelerometer, a three-axis magnetometer, a Micro USB port, a 25-pin edge connector, and 25 LEDs in a 5&#215;5 array.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/19\/8\/getting-started-bbc-microbit\">read more<\/a><br \/><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"24663-3514371590\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are a maker, a teacher, or someone looking to expand your Python skillset, the BBC:Microbit has something for you. It was designed by the British Broadcasting Corporation to support computer education in the United Kingdom. The open hardware board is half the size of a credit card and packed with an ARM processor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}