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The micro:bit community is spread across the world, building cool things with micro:bits and writing the software that runs on them. Many micro:bit hardware and software resources are openly licensed, and we encourage and support contributions from anyone.

If you’d like to be part of the world-wide micro:bit developer community, here’s how to get started:

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In addition to our regular Micro:bit Educational Foundation newsletter, our Developer and ecosystem newsletter is a low volume digest on the technical aspects of micro:bit. The details you provide are processed in accordance with The Foundation’s privacy policy.

Join us on the microbit-community slack channel!

Slack is a messaging service that allows teams and communities to connect online. It’s a brilliant tool for live collaboration and the place to be for current micro:bit chatter!

Note: For technical support you should use micro:bit help & support, where you can search for answers and raise tickets to ask the team questions. Slack complements, but does not replace, this portal.

Slack operate their own privacy policy, make sure you have read and agreed with this before signing up.

If you’d like to join the slack channel, please fill in the form below. This form collects your email address and system metadata, in accordance with the privacy policy of Freshdesk our support system. We only use this to process an invite to Slack, after which the ticket is closed and archived. If you wish, you can always deactivate your slack account at a later date..

Please notify help@microbit.org if you wish to have your email address removed from the Freshdesk system.

Other channels and communities

In addition to the Foundation’s own channels, there are other communities for support and discussion:

  • MakeCode micro:bit forum Connect with the MakeCode team for more technical details regarding developing micro:bit extensions or working on the MakeCode editor.

  • Mu Gitter Gitter chat is similar to Slack and aimed at developers using Mu

  • /r/microbit A reddit discussion on micro:bit