Resources

Mai-Z’s Haunted Harmony: A micro:bit Halloween Choir

Celebrate Halloween with Kitronik’s Mai-Z the MouseBot for BBC micro:bit! This free activity includes printable masks and code to create a spooky singing robot choir. Learn how...

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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 things we've made for previous years. Let's blow the cobwebs of our arts and craft skills and find something spooky to make!

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 how to deploy them in the classroom. Introduce young pupils (8 - 11) to AI concepts and help them prepare for the modern world. Find out more...

Icebridge Nightlight Featuring our USB LED Strip with Light Sensor

Kev gets creative with our USB LED Strip with Light Sensor Modules and USB Leads (30 Pack) and shows you how to make a fun night light diorama using the Kitronik Value Acrylic Glass Look 3mm x 600mm x 400mm sheets. Find out how...

Make a Laser Cut Value Acrylic Fluorescent Wiggly Mirror

Learn how to make a simple laser-cut fluorescent wiggly mirror using just our value acrylics and Emma's step-by-step instructions. Find out more...

How to make a Dice Tower from Finnboard

Board game nerds rejoice! This beautifully simple laser cut project uses only one material, and is an extremely buildable and customisable project that is easy to add your own style to. Read on and get ready to roll some dice!

Make a Magic 6-Ball Randomiser with Dice Project Kit and Value Acrylic

Forget the Magic 8 Ball, the new Kitronik Magic 6 Ball is where it’s at! Using the Kitronik Dice Project Kit and some Value Acrylic, you too can create a fun randomiser with life advice. Download the dxf zip file and follow, our in-house animator/designer, Kev's instructions!

Ruuunnnn Shadow Box Colour Changing Illumination with RGB LED Strips

Create a layered colour changing shadow box using polypropylene, an RGB LED Strip with Pattern Selector and USB Power Lead. This simple but effective make can creatively inspire students and also hit many different elements of the school curriculum.

Using the micro:bit edge-connector with MakeCode Arcade

Full micro:bit edge connector support has now been added to the MakeCode Arcade editor. To highlight this, Jake from our Dev team has put together a code example to demonstrate the functionality of the micro:bit IO under Makecode Arcade. The demonstration involves a modification of the “jumpy platformer” example. Learn how...

How to make a Shadow Box Dinosaur with Value acrylic and LED strips

An easy way to explore topics in a more memorable format is by including them in a craft project! Our example is a dinosaur, though of course you can choose any topic. Learn how to make a Shadow Box Dinosaur with Value acrylic and LED strips. Make now...

Make a Four-Compartment Stationery Holder with Value Acrylic

Emma brings you a makes that will brighten a desk space and keep things orderly. Follow along below with three extremely simple laser cut makes, us...

Make a Red Eyed Robot with our Rear Bike Light Project Kit

Using this robot design and the Kitronik flashing Bike Light, you can now create something from a sci-fi cartoon. This make by Kev, our in house illustrator/designer, is great for the classroom. It combines electronics and design, and the result will look good on a desk, a shelf, or in a workshop. Find out more...

Make an Edge Lit Flower with our Kitronik Tricolour LED Boards - An ideal gift for Mum

Create that perfect gift for mum, using one of our Kitronik Tricolour LED Boards. This layered light effect display will look great on the mantle piece. Grab the file, follow Kev's guide, and make your own. Please share pics of your makes with us on social media. Find out more...

Make Custom Whiteboard and Blackboard With Special Finish Acrylic Sheets

Keeping a note of your tasks or jotting down items you need to buy is always much easier with a memo board nearby. So why not make one yourself? Emma made a couple of simple memo board layouts for you to use or alter, so you can organise things your way! Find out more and make your own...

Making a Simple Laser-Cut Chassis for the Pullback Motor

Channel the toy cars you played with as a child and send your designs rocketing across the floor, built on this simple chassis for our pull back Motor! Follow Emma's detailed instructions below and build your own. As usual, our design is available as a free download. Learn how...

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 makes, using our awesomely budget-friendly Cheap Acrylic sheets! Find out how...

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 this resource will allow you to include a sustainable power source in your design. 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...

Add Line Following & More to the Simple Robotics Kit with Clippable Detector

The Clippable detector board gives the ability to add sensory inputs to the BBC micro:bit. Within this blog, the Clippable Detector board will be used with the simple robotics kit to make it more versatile. Using phototransistor detectors it is possible to detect a line, light and objects. Find out more...

Tech Talk - micro:bit Python Editor - Thurs 9th of March at 10:30AM GMT

We're back with another tech talk. Join Emma & Kevin as they explore the basics of using the New micro:bit Python Editor. They'll explore the interface and get hands on with some code examples. If you want to get into Python with micro:bit but are unsure of where to start, this is the tech talk for you. Learn more...