[michaelt]

> Making a basic alarm from a light sensor, an led, and a microcontroller (such as a micro:bit) just might.

While I applaud any efforts to get more kids into programming, what I couldn't figure out with the micro:bit was its market positioning relative to the Arduino, ESP8266, Raspberry Pi and arm mbed.

Between those there were already several options with the explicit goal of inspiring kids into programming, there was already well documented stuff for baby's first blinking LED, already 100MHz+ sub-$5 options, already options with wireless, already options with online compilers, already options with micropython support, and even an option that didn't need a PC and could run fully-fledged python.