Dec 16, 2020Two technology companies have teamed up with BBC Studios' BBC Learning division to create an Internet of Things (IoT)-based learning kit that provides inventors young and old with a platform for IoT programming. The kit enables users to build wireless sensor-based systems that transmit data via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), guided in voice by the time-traveling genius scientist known as the Doctor, from the television show
Doctor Who.
Fablesss semiconductor company SiFive is providing its RISC-V processor, which is used in the Tynker coding system that is intended to be easy enough for children to use, but with functionality that BBC Learning expects to be leveraged by adults as well. The HiFive Inventor Coding Kit is designed to teach users and enable them to code their own IoT solutions. As a learning tool, the kit focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and innovation for future generations, according to Kara Iaconis, the head of BBC Learning.