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Chicago Electronic Distributors has become part of the PiShop family. Please place orders through PiShop.us, as we are no longer taking orders through this site. More details are in our blog!
Chicago Electronic Distributors has become part of the PiShop family. Please place orders through PiShop.us, as we are no longer taking orders through this site. More details are in our blog!

The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized creative technology board designed for education. It features a 5x5 red LED array for simple graphics and character messages, two programmable buttons, an accelerometer and magnetometer for motion and heading detection. It also has Bluetooth Low Energy communication capability, a 2-pin JST battery connector and a micro-USB port for programming and power. Many programming options are supported, including  MicroPython.

The heart of the micro:bit is a 16MHz, 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller with 256KB Flash, 16KB RAM and a built-in temperature sensor. The micro:bit's main connector has 20 gold-tabbed edge pins and five ring connectors (three for digital/analogue I/O, and two for power and ground) for hooking up external components. The tabs with larger holes can be easily used with alligator clips or banana plugs for rapid prototyping.

Note: the micro:bit is produced in four different colours: blue, magenta, green and orange. As these are supplied to us randomly, we have no control over which colour of micro:bit you'll get.

The micro:bit go kit contains a single BBC micro:bit, USB cable, battery holder & 2x AAA batteries and a Quick Start Guide.

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