The Python editor is available from the Micro:bit Educational Foundation website, alongside free teaching resources. Steve Bush Steve Bush is the long-standing technology editor for Electronics Weekly ...

Instead, it’s a microcontroller development platform based on an ARM chip. Now, the micro:bit is getting Python, the BASIC of today, and will assuredly be even more useful in UK classrooms.

For this example you will also need to copy this Python code to a MicroPython editor and use the editor to flash the Python code onto the micro:bit. I also made a theremin-like musical toy!