I had heard of the BBC educational computer from the 80's but I didn't know it was released more recently. How would you compare it to an Arduino as an educational tool? On 7 November 2017 at 06:28, James Cameron wrote: > For a primary school teaching project, my wife and I were given two > BBC micro:bit embedded systems. They've been around since 2015, but > this is the first time I've used them. > > One of my regular irritations in new designs is startup time. Complex > firmware bootloaders slow things down. > > So I used Atom and PlatformIO to code a blinky, and looked at the time > between 3.3V power and I/O pin rise. It is 2.5ms, which is quite > nice. > > http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/20171107-bbc-microbit-startup.png > > Looking into it, there are two microcontrollers; the Nordic nRF51822 > runs the application, and an NXP KL26Z is used as the USB interface. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Bit > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .