We’ve now completed work on our Summer Design & Technology Flyer 2023 and it’s ready for download. It is designed to go along side our most recent full 2022-2023 catalogue, it contains products, changes, and new products added to the Design & Technology range since the catalogue was released. Download a copy now!
Tech Talk – Kitronik Air Quality Control HAT Thurs 25th May -10:30AM BST
Kitronik are back with a New Product themed tech talk. Join Alasdair & Kevin as they explore our first ever HAT for Raspberry Pi, the Kitronik Air Quality Control HAT They will be going over the features of the board, how it can be used, and the resources available to help you get the most from it. Find out more…
We Release our First HAT, the Kitronik Air Quality Control HAT for Raspberry Pi
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!