It has the advantage as well as coming with buttons and lights (as well as accelerometer, compass, light sensor, temperature sensor, bluetooth), so the time bet

It has the advantage as well as coming with buttons and lights (as well as accelerometer, compass, light sensor, temperature sensor, bluetooth), so the time between 'open package' and see your code doing something is much smaller. At £15 for one with a battery pack, cables, tutorials, and all that, it sounds great. And apparently has a different radio too, to connect to other micro:bits? Multiplayer rock paper scissors: https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/rps-teams https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/rps-teams I'll happily trade not having loads of ram for something a kid (or a big kid myself :) ) can pick up and just make something fun in almost no time.