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Here goes… my first micro:bit post. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I asked on Twitter whether there were any blogs out there for the micro:bit. I was sent a few links to various different sites (although, curiously, very few with an RSS feed that would help me track changes\/new stuff easily!).<\/p>\n

I’ve collected everything I’ve found so far onto this page<\/a>. This is just the start – I expect to add to it as I go along, so feel free to contact me<\/a> if there are any resources that are particularly good. What I’m\u00a0not <\/em>going to do is to replicate, in its entirety, Carlos’ excellent work over on GitHub<\/a>. He’s got a huge head-start on me, so I’ll just link there for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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