Germans React to UK’s micro:bit
I saw a micro:bit keynote at a big conference somewhat recently. Overall I have to say I&#x27;m not all that impressed with the strategic decisions. There were some reasons for rolling their own but they could have partnered with existing alternatives (the keynote struck me as a tad bit too &quot;nationalistic&quot; for lack of a better word...basically &quot;we must do it ourselves because...REMEMBER ACORN GLORY DAYS&quot;).<p>Now it seems Germany is also rolling their own...meh. At least the machines will get into the hands of kids eventually and the software is open source which I like a lot. But I mean why not just ship the micro:bit (or other existing alternatives)?<p>And I agree with the blog post...if you must roll your own you might as well go the complete open hardware route.<p>tl;dr: Too much not invented here going on with these projects.<p>Edit: There&#x27;s a reasoning for not choosing the micro:bit provided on the calliope website: no speaker, rgb light or microphone + the arrangement is strange and students would short circuit it too often; for not chosing arduino&#x2F;pi etc.: too complex&#x2F;needs too much extra stuff and is thus impractical in school use