Maker tutorials

This is a basic laser cutting guide for laser cut animals showing you how to turn images into DXF laser files ready for your cutter. In addition, we used Inkscape to sketch out a little stand so that once cut we could show off our laser cut animals in the best possible light! Learn how!

This step by step guide shows you how you might design and make a simple perspex box. We have used free design tools for this guide but we will also highlight an alternative method, using different software and browser-based tools.

For day eight of our 12 Makes of Christmas we made some LED Silhouette Christmas Cards. Follow our step by step guide and make your own.

For day seven of our 12 Makes of Christmas we've turned a ZIP Halo for BBC microbit into a fetching Christmas Bauble that would make a great addition to your Christmas tree!

For day six of our 12 Makes of Christmas we made a cut-out winter cabin, which we lit with a ZIP Halo for BBC microbit. Follow our step by step guide and build your own.

For day six of our 12 Makes of Christmas we made Rudolf the LED nosed Reindeer. Follow our step by step guide and build your own out of laser cut parts.

We return to the Christmas tree theme with another fun festive making activity, learn how to make our laser cut LED Christmas tree with copper tape circuit for day four of our 12 Makes of Christmas.

Nothing says it's Christmas quite like a Christmas tree, learn to make our 3D Printed LED Christmas tree for day two of our 12 Makes of Christmas. It's an easy project to make, once the parts are printed the job of putting it together shouldn't take many minutes.

The Kitronik 12 Makes of Christmas. We've gathered together 12 great Christmas projects that you can access via our interactive Christmas Advent Calendar. We will release a new making activity every day for the next 12 days.

This year we've got a range of fun and creative projects to help make your Halloween a memorable one. We've got fancy dress modifications, fancy dress props, moving Halloween decorations, and some great Halloween themed add-ons for the Kitronik :MOVE mini.

Become a superhero and create your own pulsing reactor to complete your Iron Man costume or wear underneath a t-shirt as Tony Stark.

Turn your :Move mini into a spooky Halloween pumpkin or ghost with these 3D Printed bodies! All you need is a 3D printer, some screws, a :MOVE mini for the BBC microbit, and some code.

In this 3D Printed Desktop Fan Resource we show you how to design and 3D print a stylish enclosure for our new easy build USB Fan Kit. For the budding designers, we’ve included a walk-through of our process from concept to finished product that you can use for inspiration for your own designs.

Fire up the laser cutters for this DIY Heng Lamp project by our good friends Just Add Sharks. It's a great Design & Technology challenge for your students, not to mention that it will result in some amazing looking furniture.

This resource has been produced to provide a great way for you to create cases for our very popular MP3 Mono Amplifier V2.0 Kit and our High Power Stereo Amplifier Kit.

With Halloween just a few weeks away there is no better time to begin planning your spooky making activities, we thought we would get in nice and early this year and share some of ideas. We've got a few Halloween 3D printing and laser cutting projects to help get you in the mood and maybe give you a few ideas too!

We show you how we made a custom light rig for time-lapse 3D print videos to ensure consistent results for each print. This is the conclusion of our short series of articles on creating time-lapse videos of 3D prints.

We're always looking for interesting ways to show off our kits, and recently we got hold of a Go Pro to take some buggies eye footage (more on that soon). Whilst we were all set up we thought we'd show you how easy it is to make a time-lapse video of a 3D print on the Robox RBX-01 Printer using a Go Pro.

The last part of our physical design challenge was to design a flag for a capture the flag style game. As with most of the design challenges that this project presented, we had some ideas and discarded the difficult and impractical until we were left with a simple but effective solution.

We looked at a few different ways of achieving our Robot Wars inspired buggy but quickly settled on keeping the buggy completely intact and cutting a top plate from a perspex sheet. We wanted it to be functional, aesthetically pleasing and also easy to produce. We had six buggies to design and build and only a few days to get them done.