BBC picks SiFive RISC-V chip for Doctor Who programming-for-kids kit

Whoever gets BBC BASIC running on this thing first wins.

Funny they mention ARM though, the original beeb was made by Acorn.

Port RISC-OS to RISC-V? Interesting idea..

in fact, Acorn originally designed the ARM instruction set as a coprocessor expansion pack for the the bbc Micro.

Cool but the price bracket is kind of high.

I've been using these lately - esp32, with a tiny display, wifi, bluetooth, 2 buttons, adc pounds etc - currently showing as $7 US.

It's astonishing to me that I can buy a dual core computer with a display for a few bucks. There's really no price barrier to using these in even very poor environments.

https://m.banggood.com/TTGO-T-Display-ESP32-CP2104-WiFi-blue...

https://www.hifiveinventor.com/

The theming looks fantastic, basically making a game out of it all. Are there examples of the narration anywhere?