Maker tutorials

Learn how to make more ambitious projects featuring our project kits and BBC micro:bit products. These resources are aimed at makers of all levels.

Learn how to make more ambitious projects featuring our project kits and BBC micro:bit products. These resources are aimed at makers of all levels.

Faux Leather Project - Making a Laser Cut Bi-fold Wallet

Faux Leather Project - Making a Laser Cut Bi-fold Wallet

This project demonstrates the versatility of our new Faux Leather, which is fully laserable and engraves like a dream! We’re going to be covering some simple leather-working tips! This project is a Bi-fold Wallet, which is deceptively simple, and leaves you with a functional finished product. Find out more...
Hold Your Own Concert with our Bluetooth Amplifier Module!

Hold Your Own Concert with our Bluetooth Amplifier Module!

This make from Emma takes on the challenge of creating an enclosure for our Bluetooth Amplifier Module, and making it look cool! This stacked Concert amplifier-style enclosure will bring a little Rock ’n’ Roll to your space in a neat, rechargeable package! Find out more...
Make Custom Whiteboard and Blackboard With Special Finish Acrylic Sheets

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...
Make Halloween Shine: Spooky Floating Candles from LED Torch Kits!

Make Halloween Shine: Spooky Floating Candles from LED Torch Kits!

Happy Halloween 2023 from Kitronik! For those of you celebrating, we are bringing you a magical make that will have your home, office or classroom feeling like a haunted house! Follow along with Emma's step by step instructions and make your own spooky candles. Learn now...
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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 2023 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!
Making a Simple Laser-Cut Chassis for the Pullback Motor

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...
Keep Cool this Summer: Laser Cut Hand-Fans!

Keep Cool this Summer: Laser Cut Hand-Fans!

Emma brings you a make that could come in handy: two designs of hand-fan that will keep you cool and look stunning! Customising these to match outf...
Making Laser Cut Desk Tidies with Value Acrylic

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

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 Magic Rabbit with the Kitronik Movement Module

Making a Magic Rabbit with the Kitronik Movement Module

This adorable little plush rabbit is made from felt, coloured with markers and stuffed with cotton batting, and is a nice easy project in and of itself! Add in a linear actuator powered by our Movement Module, hide the battery box and linear actuator inside a top-hat, and you have an easy magic trick! Learn how...
Making an Outdoor Enclosure for the Kitronik Air Quality Control HAT for Raspberry Pi

Making an Outdoor Enclosure for the Kitronik Air Quality Control HAT for Raspberry Pi

In this blog we will explore making and testing an outdoor enclosure for the Kitronik Air Quality Control HAT for Raspberry Pi. The library and example code for the Air Quality Control HAT can be found on our GitHub repo. Find out more!
Pico Drawing Robot Arm Code Explanation

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...
How-To Make a Custom Football Pitch for :MOVE Motor

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...
How to make a simple Valentines Lamp with a Candle Effect LED

How to make a simple Valentines Lamp with a Candle Effect LED

This February 14th, light up your loved one’s life a little with a fun floral lantern make! Follow along with Emma's instructions and make your own. As always, we provide the design as a free download. Learn how...
Valentines 2023 Inspiration Customising Our Laserables Collection

Valentines 2023 Inspiration Customising Our Laserables Collection

Valentines is a great time for custom gifts. Putting the effort into making something can really show someone how much they mean to you. In this bl...
Making an Enclosure for the USB Rechargeable Torch Kit

Making an Enclosure for the USB Rechargeable Torch Kit

One of our newest products is the Kitronik USB Rechargeable Torch Kit: a through-hole soldering kit designed to charge fast and provide a fun design challenge. We have made this simple enclosure for you to use as a jumping-off point for your own design or perhaps just for some inspiration! Learn how...
Acrylic Bulb Enclosure for the Kitronik Round Side Illumination LED Module hero image

Acrylic Bulb Enclosure for the Kitronik Round Side Illumination LED Module

Recently we brought out the beautifully bright Kitronik Round Side Illumination LED Module, and to mark the new board, our Development Director Dave Sanderson designed this cool light-bulb enclosure. Follow Dave & Emma's instructions and make your own...
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Create a 3D Japanese Landscape From Laser Cut Layered Parts

Create a 3D Japanese landscape piece of art using a selection of our latest veneered MDFs and plywood as well as Perspex® sheets. Laser cut each part and then layer them together, one a top the other, to create an artistic impression of Mount Fuji in Japan. Sit it on a surface or hang it on a wall. Learn how...
Make an Edge-Lit Colour Mixing Diagram with the Tricolour LED Board

Make an Edge-Lit Colour Mixing Diagram with the Tricolour LED Board

To demonstrate the basic concept behind our TriColour LED strip, and celebrate its launch, we have made this edge-lit diagram so that you can experience Additive Colour Mixing yourself! This would make a great classroom aid, or you could use it as a template from which to create your own designs! Find out how...
Turn The :MOVE Motor Into A Radio Controlled Halloween SpookMobile

Turn The :MOVE Motor Into A Radio Controlled Halloween SpookMobile

This is a simple make that sits on top of your :MOVE Motor and adds some Halloween drama to your remote-controlled buggy. The LEDs are used to replicate the flickering of candles, and the V2 micro:bit’s speaker is used to make a ghostly noise. Follow Emma's instructions and make your own!