Our range of soldering tools is extending and now includes a 60W Digital Soldering Station, a 25W Economy Soldering Iron (Mains Powered), an Economy Soldering Iron Stand, solder extractor, leaded solder and a Multicore, No-clean, Quality Solder Mop.

From September 2014, teaching children to learn and write code will be a mandatory requirement across all primary and secondary schools in England. With these new changes, we’ve introduced a whole host of new Raspberry Pi add-on boards, hardware drivers, accessories and starter packs.

Is your D&T Department prepared for the start of term? With the summer holidays drawing to a close, we have stripped our new product lines back to basics with yet more hand tools!

Hand tools are a D&T Department’s best friend and these new screwdrivers are great value for very little money! You can now pick yourself up a set of 6 Duratool Precision Screwdrivers for just £3.36 (inc. VAT)!

Back in June 2014 we sold our 250,000th MP3 Mono Amplifier Project Kit, making it our best selling project kit so far! Having smashed the quarter of a million mark, we’re dedicating this week’s Newsy-Blog to the mighty Mono Amp Kit itself.

Rather than manually picking surface mount components from a reel and placing them onto PCBs (which used to be the manufacturing process for our Electro-Fashion Sewable PCB LEDs), we have invested in a Pick and Place Machine to do all of the fiddly work for us. See the machine in action here!

Our range of speakers continues to expand and now includes a Wide Range PA Loudspeaker, Kevlar Cone Woofers, Square and Round Dome Tweeters, a Piezo Tweeter, and 2 Way Passive Crossovers.

Our Birch Laser Plywood sheets have proved so popular with schools and makers that we have decided to supply Poplar Laser Plywood and Laser Grade MDF. How is Poplar different to Birch Laser Plywood? Find out here!