[VicPiMakers Projects] Looks like the UK is moving away from the Raspberry PI

[Donald Woods]

Sparkfun has an intro to the microbit 
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-the-microbit/all

Price looks similar to the pi pico, but the microbit doesn't need a 
power supply like the pico does. Personally I'd favor the pico w

I've had a couple of contacts from school board members, but nothing yet 
that jumped out as "We should do this" - unless going to Sooke is 
acceptable.

Don


On 21-Jul-2024 18:03, Deid Reimer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At a quick read, it looks like the micro:bit is a microcontroller. 
> Think Pi Pico with a bunch of process I/O built in.
>
> The goal seems to be to focus on interesting/fun coding projects.   No 
> OS.  So, again, think Pi Pico.
>
> I am inclined to think this is a good thing.   The Raspberry Pi has 
> become too powerful and complex to fit the simple intro to programming 
> niche.  Although I'm not sure they needed to reinvent since the Pico 
> exists.
>
> On the other hand, if you want to learn Linux and OSs and coding, then 
> bring on the Raspberry Pi.
>
> Deid
> va7rei
> On Jul 21, 2024, at 4:08 p.m., Craig Miller <cvmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I listen to a Tech program out of the UK, and they mentioned that the
>     BBC micro:bit is being distributed in all the primary schools to teach
>     students how to code. Other than it has more LEDs, and am not sure this
>     is an improvement over the Pi (perhaps I am biased). Here's some info:
>
>     https://microbit.org/
>
>     BBC Article:
>
>     https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/microbit/articles/zxrp3qt
>
>     Craig...
>
>
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