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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>About the micro:bit's World Tour</title>
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<a href="/">Home</a> |
<a href="/about.html">About</a> |
<a href="/microbit/mary.html" id="mary">Mary</a> |
<a href="/microbit/meena.html" id="meena">Meena</a> |
<a href="/microbit/mahiri.html" id="mahiri">Mahiri</a> |
<a href="/microbit/meixiu.html" id="meixiu">Mei-Xiu</a> |
<a href="/microbit/mohandas.html" id="mohandas">Mohandas</a> |
<a href="/microbit/monifa.html" id="monifa">Monifa</a>
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<h1>What?</h1>
<p>The
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit">BBC's micro:bit</a>
is a small computing device for children. Thanks to
<a href="http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit">some amazing work</a>
by Damien George, the creator of
<a href="http://micropython.org/">MicroPython</a>, there is a full
re-implementation of Python 3 that runs on the device.</p>
<p><strong>We have five of these devices to share with the world-wide
Python community.</strong></p>
<p><strong>We want code to be created, videos to be shot and articles
to be written.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This "world-tour" is a cheap-and-cheerful way to make this
work.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This website will log each of the five devices' journeys.</strong></p>
<h1>How?</h1>
<p>We will post 5 micro:bits to 5 people we know.</p>
<ol>
<li>They have a week to learn about the device and produce
something fun. Their task is to surprise, delight and educate
us!</li>
<li>After a week they create a pull request to
<a href="https://github.com/microworldtour/microworldtour.github.io">our code repository</a>
detailing what they've done:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzCYc445IVNQimtxAlPpaFMtvv8qKSncK">point to videos</a>,
<a href="http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit">link to blog posts</a>
or tell us about a
<a href="https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/milestones">new feature</a>.</li>
<li>They post the device to a new person who repeats the
process.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you want to get involved <em>read the README in
<a href="https://github.com/microworldtour/microworldtour.github.io">our code repository</a></em>
for more information. :-)</p>
<p>Hopefully, in a relatively short period of time, we'll have spread
the word about this remarkable device and generated a significant
number of projects, resources and features that children can use.</p>
<h1>Who?</h1>
<ul>
<li>If you're from a background which isn't well-represented in
most geeky groups, get involved - <strong>we want to help you make
a difference</strong>.</li>
<li>If you're from a background which is well-represented in most
geeky groups, get involved - <strong>we want your help making a
difference</strong>.</li>
<li>If you're worried about not being technical enough, get
involved - <strong>your fresh perspective will be
invaluable</strong>.</li>
<li>If you think you're an imposter, get involved.</li>
<li>If your day job isn't code, get involved.</li>
<li>This isn't a group of experts, just people.</li>
<li>We are interested in the educational, social and technical
problems.</li>
<li>This is a new community. <strong>No-one knows what they are
doing</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>(The list above was adapted from
<a href="http://computeranonymous.org/">here</a>.)</p>
<p>"What children will be using the device?" I hear you ask.</p>
<p>A million micro:bits will be given out to all the UK's children in
academic year 7 (11 to 12 year olds). When this happens all
the digital assets needed to create the device as well as all the
software needed to program it will be released under an open-source
license. Put simply, anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to fork
the project and make it their own. You'll also be able to buy such
devices via mail-order from the UK soon after they are given to the
children in the spring of 2016.</p>
<p>The following video of an early version of MicroPython running on
the device will give you a flavour of the sort of things you can
do.</p>
<div class="video-container">
<iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HAx9sJB1_eY?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe>
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