micro:bit developer community and technical resources
Welcome to the micro:bit developer community
The micro:bit developer community site
This site aims to sit between a community wiki and a technical datasheet for the micro:bit.
The content is available to
edit on Github
and is
openly licensed through Creative Commons
The site is maintained by the Micro:bit Educational Foundation in order to document the hardware and software that make the micro:bit work the way it does.
We hope to encourage contributions into these projects in order to broaden our ecosystem and the range of things people can invent with a micro:bit.
The Micro:bit Educational Foundation aims to be a ‘responsible downstream’ to the many open source
software
projects that are used to build the micro:bit: much like a good Linux distribution collates, tests, stabilises and releases combinations of many diverse open source packages, the Micro:bit Educational Foundation and the micro:bit community present micro:bit users with a stable, tested release of all the things you need to make the magical ‘end-to-end’ micro:bit experience.
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Help us build it
If you’d like to help us make the micro:bit better, then there are a number of ways that you can get involved.
Code
Contribute features and fixes to one of the upstream projects that the micro:bit relies upon:
The micro:bit
Device Abstraction Layer (DAL/runtime)
The
MakeCode Editor
The
Python Editor
DAPlink
Build
Help us build a brilliant hardware ecosystem around micro:bit - derivative boards, cool accessories and add ons, or even suggestions for future versions of the micro:bit.
The
micro:bit schematic
and
reference design
are good places to start for making your own projects
The
accessories guide
gives you an idea of what’s currently available.
Write
Improve the documentation and this site
, either reporting issues or adding documentation will be extremely helpful.
Help build a community around micro:bit - join the
Email list
, share the things you’ve created on twitter, blog about them!