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Likewise. I owe a lot to the BBC micro.

A few years ago UK schools were flooded with BBC:Micro Bits - everyone in my son's year-group received one.

I think the idea was similar, seed a new generation with technical know-how. I'm not sure if it will work this time - I guess we will have to wait and see.

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It was really. I worked at the beeb when it was being worked on and it was very much tyring to strip back all the cludgy layers built up and get real interaction with the device, much the same way as the original did. Yes, there were Pi's but there's a lot more to the stack in that. Hopefully they don't overheat (that was part of my testing I helped with :) ) As for it's efficacy, it definitely sparked a few minds but I don't think anywhere near the effect the original had. There's so many more distraction nowadays for kids too.

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