Hey All, I saw Nicholas Tollervey been posting news on various Python mailing lists that MicroPython is now open-sourced for BBC micro:bit. I thought it might be interesting to share with you all.
BTW, if you are thinking of upvoting his post on HN, please open HN frontpage and upvote from there. :-) Cheers, /// Vicky about.me/whykay [image: Vicky Lee on about.me] <http://about.me/whykay> === BEGIN MESSAGE === Hi Folks, Many apologies for cross posting. Here's some good news - we've finally been given permission to open-source our work on the BBC micro:bit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit) and be a bit more vocal and public about what we're doing. Put simply, around 1 million of these devices will be given to the UK's 11yo in the spring. They are all capable of running Python. If you think the following is of interest, please spread the word! It'd be great to see the wider Python community get involved in this. Damien George (creator of MicroPython) announced it here: http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1042 I've written up a "story so far" blog post, for those of you who need some context, here: http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit The actual source code can be found here: https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Best wishes, Nicholas. === END MESSAGE === -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
