Kitronik are proud to announce the release of our very first in-house Raspberry Pi HAT, the Kitronik Air Quality Control HAT for Raspberry Pi. With it, you can monitor, log, and react to the gathered sensory data. It is fully compliant with the HAT specification, just slot it onto the pins of the Raspberry Pi and go!
10 micro:bit Products & Resources Suitable for Children Aged 8+
With the launch of micro:bit next gen, we thought it would be useful to highlight how accessible learning is for the younger students right now. It might surprise you to learn that there is already a wealth of micro:bit accessories and free learning resources suitable for the younger students. Find out more…
Announcing micro:bit Next Gen, Partnership & Roll-out
BBC micro:bit the next gen, is a new partnership between BBC Education, The Micro:bit Educational Foundation and Nominet. Made possible by Nominet’s support, the partnership will donate a set of 30 micro:bits to every primary school across the UK that registers to receive them at bbc.co.uk/microbit. Find out more!
Kitronik’s Dave Sanderson visiting ICT for Education conference 12/05/2023
Kitronik Technical Director, Dave Sanderson, will be attending the ICT for Education conference in Norwich 12/05/2023. our good friends BCS, the Chartered Institute of IT will also be attending and it looks to be an exciting event. Will you be there? Find out more…
Making a Cardboard Pico Drawing Robot Arm
In this first blog of a series we are going to cover how we can create a drawing robot arm out of cardboard using three servos, a Raspberry Pi Pico and the Kitronik Simply Servos for Pico board. Then we’ll move onto how to use the DrawingRobot Python library we created for the Pico. Find out more…
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 robot arm, as well as make our arm sturdier using pencils. In the second section we will learn how to draw images.
Pico Drawing Robot Arm Code Explanation
The biggest challenge behind making the Cardboard and Advanced drawing robot arms was figuring out how to move the arm to a specific position. This is needed so that we can use the line coordinates from our vectorised images to move the robot arm and draw the image. Find out more…
Kitronik Spring Materials Update Flyer 2023
We’ve now completed work on our Spring Materials Update Flyer 2023 and it’s ready for download. It is designed to go along side our most recent full 2022-2023 catalogue, it contains everything that has been added or changed since the catalogue was released. Download a copy!
How-To Make a Custom Football Pitch for :MOVE Motor
Some of you may have seen a version of this football pitch at the Rome Maker Faire 2023, or this exact pitch at SETT 2023. Today, we’re showing you how it’s made so that you can make your own! Perfect for a tiny game of robot football with our :MOVE Motors! Find out more…
Materials Tech Talk – Weird April Makes – Thurs 6th of April at 10:30AM BST
Kitronik and Smoke & Mirrors are back with another materials themed tech talk. Join Emma and Dominic as they explore some April themed makes. They’ll discuss all aspects of the makes including how to make them and the materials used. Tune in to YouTube on Thurs 6th of April at 10:30AM BST to watch it all go down live.