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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

The BBC Micro Bit [wikipedia.org], a computer that was intended to be given to 1 million British schoolchildren back in October, has been delayed again [bbc.com]:

The corporation said it now planned to start giving teachers their own units just after the half-term holidays, to help them plan classes. It added it was "pushing to deliver as many as possible" to pupils before the term's end but could not be more specific about how many or when. The idea behind the project has been widely praised, but some teachers are concerned they will no longer have enough time to do it justice this school year.

The Micro Bit is designed to run code written by children that will let them display text and patterns on its 25 LEDs and make use of its built-in sensors.

[...] [On] Wednesday, at the Bett education trade show in London, the BBC said its timetable had slipped again.

"The main issue has been some fine-tuning," BBC Learning executive Cerys Griffiths said. "We have created hardware, it's very complex, it's very sophisticated, it's very new. What we were really hoping for was that the teachers would get their devices before Christmas. But our commitment to teachers has always been that we would get them the devices first to give them time to play and get familiar with them."

Previously: BBC Micro:Bit Delayed by Power Supply SNAFU [soylentnews.org]
The Story of MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit [soylentnews.org]

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