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Kitronik Discovery Kit for the BBC micro:bit Take your first steps in physical computing the Kitronik Discovery Kit for BBC micro:bit via its 5 fully documented experiments. Learn how to build the experiments and then write the code used to cont...

Never done coding or electronics before? We've got the perfect kit for you

Kitronik Discovery Kit for micro:bit assumes no prior knowledge and includes 5 experiments to take you from novice to natural!

'Discover' more: bit.ly/2GNezTD #learntocode #microbit

The Kitronik Big Page of Design and Technology Projects for Teachers Design & Technology Projects. Now that we're a few volumes in, it makes sense to have a page that houses links to all of the projects, from all of the volumes.

👩‍🏫 Kitronik Big Page of Design and Technology Projects for Teachers

Now that we're 3 volumes in, we've compiled a list of all projects on one page!

Browse for your next classroom activities today!

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Kitronik Mai-Z the MouseBot for BBC micro:bit - Single Unit Smart, playful, & packed with potential, meet Mai-Z, the ultimate programmable robot buggy for young coders aged 8–14! Put young learners into the driving seat.

🔥 Meet Mai-Z the MouseBot. Designed for curious minds aged 8–14. ⚡️

✨ Custom MakeCode blocks
🎨 Pen holder for drawing
🧠 Ultrasonic sensors
🎯 Motor encoders for precise movement
💡 Built to inspire creativity

Ready to spark joy in your next computing lesson? 🚀

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Glow big and go Home Safely: Glowing Halloween Bucket Make Make Halloween safer and spookier with our glowing trick-or-treat bucket! Build it using the Kitronik 5V LED Matrix Lamp and light your way through the night.

Light the way this Halloween!

🧙‍♀️✨ Build a glowing trick-or-treat bucket with @Kitronik’s LED Matrix Lamp. A fun, intermediate electronics project that teaches soldering, safety, and seasonal creativity.

#dtchat #Halloween

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Mai-Z’s Haunted Harmony: A micro:bit Halloween Choir Celebrate Halloween with Kitronik’s Mai-Z MouseBot for BBC micro:bit! This free activity includes printable masks & code to create a spooky singing robot choir.

Want a Halloween project that blends coding, music, and making?

🎃 Mai-Z’s Haunted Harmony =

✅ micro:bit radio
✅ LED flicker effects
✅ DIY masks
✅ A spooky robot choir!

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The Kitronik Halloween Makes Archive We love making seasonal things, especially when it's Halloween. It practically invites the making of weird & wonderful things. To get 2025 off to a flying start, let's take a look at some of the thing...

🎃 👻 Need some inspiration for spooktacular makes? We've got you! 🍬 🦇

🕯️Our archive of makes stretches back in time, all the way to 2015, and lists all of our Halloween makes. All of the makes have the instructions and files you'll need!

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A Guide on Working with Mirrored Acrylic Mirrors are a great maker project because of their versatility in design and the fascinating history they carry. Emma explores working with mirrored acrylic...

🧪🔧 Reflect on this: mirrored acrylic isn’t just shiny, it can also be tricky!

📚 This guide helps educators laser-cut with confidence.

No more guesswork, just mirror-cle precision.

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When they're gone, they're gone! 💨

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The Primary Teachers' next gen guide to teaching with the micro:bit This guide has been designed to help Primary Teachers learn about the micro:bit and to help you deploy them into the classroom. We have a wealth of guides online already but in the interest of conveni...

👩‍🏫 Teaching with the micro:bit, a Primary Teachers' guide.

All the information you need to introduce the micro:bit into the primary classroom. It includes background information, worked examples, and lists sources of further information for the curious.

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Kitronik Materials, Computing & Design & Technology Catalogue 2025-2026 We hope everyone had a great summer & that you're ready for the new year Our brand new Materials, Computing & Design & Technology Catalogue 2025-2026 is now out

🚨 New year, new gear!

Our 2025–2026 Kitronik Catalogue just dropped, & it’s loaded with new materials, coding tools, & classroom-ready resources.

💻🎨 Whether you're teaching DT, computing, or electronics, or working with materials, we've got something new for you.

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Mini Temperature Module With LCD Display This mini temperature module with LCD display is the perfect size for integrating into a project discretely, such as a custom clock face build. Find out more...

Building a clock with a custom face? Why not expand its scope to include temperature sensing?

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Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade ARCADE Max is a programmable gamepad for MakeCode Arcade. Use it to develop coding skills by creating & modifying games with Blocks and JavaScript in MakeCode.

✨ Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade

✅ Small & convenient
✅ Large 2.4" screen
✅ For ages 8+
✅ Learn to code
✅ Play games!
✅ For MakeCode Arcade

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#teachers #microsoftarcade

Adding Solar Powered Rechargeable Batteries to the Kitronik LED Strip This simple guide shows you how you can easily add a solar powered recharging circuit to our new Kitronik LED Strip with Solder Free Connections. If you are going to create an enclosure for the kit th...

☀️⚡🔋 Combine the power of the summer sun with electronics and keep the lights burning through the night.

Add solar-powered rechargeable batteries to our LED strip module.

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Online MakeCode Tutorials For The Kitronik Greenhouse Kit 6 free online MakeCode tutorials that introduce you to automated growing systems using the Kitronik Greenhouse kit. This works with microbit V1 and microbit V2.

Learn and grow

7 free online tutorials for our new Smart Greenhouse Kit.

Start coding now!

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#makecode #microbit

A Primary Teachers' Guide to Exploring AI with MakeCode CreateAI and the BBC micro:bit A Teacher's Guide to MakeCode CreateAI. Learn how to use the tools and then introduce young pupils (8 - 11) to AI concepts, help them prepare for the new world.

Primary Teachers' Guide to MakeCode CreateAI with the BBC #microbit

Explore CreateAI with the BBC micro:bit, it brings AI to life through movement and play, and is perfect for curious young minds (8 - 11).

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🆕✨ Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade
✅ Small & convenient
✅ Large 2.4" screen
✅ For ages 8+
✅ Learn to code
✅ Play games!
✅ For MakeCode Arcade

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#teachers #microsoftarcade

Online MakeCode Tutorials For The Kitronik Greenhouse Kit 6 free online MakeCode tutorials that introduce you to automated growing systems using the Kitronik Greenhouse kit. This works with microbit V1 and microbit V2.

Learn and grow

7 free online tutorials for our new Smart Greenhouse Kit.

Start coding now!

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#makecode #microbit

Unlock Your Summer D&T Projects with Our Latest Flyer! If you're looking for fresh ideas and resources to power your end-of-year D&T projects, our new summer update is here! Grab the PDF here and view it on the go!

🆕 D&T Summer update flyer 2025

🆕 If you're looking for fresh ideas and resources to power your end-of-year D&T projects, our new summer update is here to help. Grab the PDF below!

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Making Laser Cut Desk Tidies with Value Acrylic Hello again everyone! This time around, Emma brings you a set of makes that will brighten your desk space and help you keep things orderly. Follow along below with three extremely simple laser cut mak...

🧑‍💼🏢 Laser cut desk tidies

🛠️ Emma brings you a set of makes that will help you keep things orderly. Follow along using our awesomely budget-friendly Cheap Acrylic sheets!

Check it out 👇

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Making an Advanced Pico Drawing Robot Arm In this blog we are going to cover how to improve on our Cardboard Pico Drawing Robot Arm. This will be done in three stages. In the first section we will upgrade the servos we use to construct the ro...

Learn how to make an advanced Raspberry Pi Pico drawing robot arm with our Kitronik Simply Servos for Pico board.

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#teachers #robotics

E-Textiles Project: Make an Electro-Fashion® Hand Puppet Learn how to make an e-textiles hand puppet, a simple, classroom-friendly make, using Kitronik’s ElectroFashion® range of e-textiles components and materials.

🧦👀🧵✋ Make an Electro-Fashion® Hand Puppet

A great project for the classroom or a rainy day at home!

Download the template & follow the detailed instructions!

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Max has done some testing; he was able to add 536 static sprites before the arcade crashed & 532 moving sprites before crashing. About 100 moving sprites is okay at a playable frame rate. Past 100, the frame rate starts to drop, with it dropping considerably past 175 moving sprites. Hope this helps.

Hi Don, that's an excellent question. We're not sure. I've asked one of our in-house Engineers, and he's going to look into some testing, either later today or tomorrow. Watch this space.

The Kitronik Book of Design & Technology Projects - Volume 4 The Kitronik book of Projects Vol 4 is the latest of free resources specifically aimed at D&T teachers. Designed for use in your classroom. Find out more...

🚨 Project Book Vol 4 -
Free Inspiration Ahead! 🚨

Volume 4 has arrived, and once again, it contains six creative projects for you to use as inspiration, a step-by-step instructional tool, or a shopping list! Go on, give it a read.

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Introducing the new Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade Introducing the new ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade from Kitronik. Gamification has never been this exciting! Available as a single and class pack, find out more

✨ Introducing the new Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade

❇️ Available singularly.
❇️ Available as a Class pack
❇️ Get in ROI, NI, AUS, NZ
❇️ 2.4" LCD screen
❇️ For use with the Microsoft Arcade editor
❇️ Write or download games

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Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade ARCADE Max is a programmable gamepad for MakeCode Arcade. Use it to develop coding skills by creating & modifying games with Blocks and JavaScript in MakeCode.

🆕✨ Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade

✅ Small & convenient
✅ Large 2.4" screen
✅ For ages 8+
✅ Learn to code
✅ Play games!
✅ For MakeCode Arcade

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#teachers #microsoftarcade

Get building with #plywood! We stock it in a variety of sheet sizes and thicknesses, and because our entire range uses interior-grade glue, they all do well on the laser cutter. Use the filters to get to what you want quickly!

#lasercutter #dtchat

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✨ Material Drop! ✨

Our Bay Brown Laserable Faux Leather Sheets (610mm x 305mm) are here to level up your projects. 💥

🟤 Rich dark brown colour
🤎 Super soft, thin & pliable
📏 Laser friendly

Perfect for custom tags, covers, patches, or any finishing touch.

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✨ Get the Kitronik Craft & Code for your classroom! 🚀

The Lesson in a Box® from Kitronik is here — packed with creativity, coding, and over 370+ pages of teacher-friendly resources. 📚💡

Perfect for hands-on STEM learning.

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#STEMEducation #teachers

🚨 Project Book Vol 4 - Free Inspiration Ahead! 🚨

Volume 4 has arrived, and once again it contains six in-depth and creative projects for you to use for inspiration, as a step=by-step instructional, or a shopping list! Go on, give it a read.

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#bookofprojects #teacher