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Over the last couple of months you will have no doubt heard about the BBC micro:bit project, which aims to get year 7 students coding. Kitronik has joined a number of partners to help the BBC deliver some of the educational resources.

This tutorial explains how the Electro-Fashion Cat design is screen printed on to a piece of felt.

This week's New Product Friday, we are really excited to bring to you our new Bump and Spin Buggy!

This second part in our series brings to you how we made and put the design of the Team Memory Game into reality.

This week, we thought we would bring you an update on our 3D Printing range including a Robox Dual Nozzle 3D Printer Head and an extension of our filament range clear filament coming in both Crystal Clear ABS and Natural Clear PLA varieties.

Over the next few weeks, we are showing you how we made our Team Memory game that debuted at the Maker Faire UK 2015.

New 3mm Midnight Black and Moonlight White Frosted Perspex and 12mm and 20mm Coin Cell Battery Retainers.

This week, we are proud to bring you laser cuttable 2mm thick Polyethylene Foam Sheets in an ideal 600 x 400mm size and is available in five colours.

We have been extremely busy over the past month creating our very own Memory Game (a version of the ‘Simon Says’ game) and getting it ready for the Maker Faire UK at the Life Centre in Newcastle on the 25th - 26th April.

This week brings you the Arduino MicroView with associated Accessories: An extremely small Arduino compatible module that has an 64 x 48 pixel OLED display that is ideal for rapid prototyping!

It’s one week to go until arguably the most un-eagerly anticipated election in recent history, one which many of us could not wish to be over soon enough. If you are one of these people, bored by the election and disappointed by the debate, you can now take matters into your own hands by creating your own election battleground. With the final election debate taking place this evening, there could not be a better time to create your own political contest.

Decide the outcome of the upcoming 2015 Election with these add-ons to the Fizzbit Module from The Crafty Robot Company. Designed for you to hold your own leader style debate!

New products this week are based around embedding. The arduino compatible Pro Micro, and the Arduino Pro Mini are tiny, cheaper alternatives to a fill sized uno

Nottingham based electronics company bring the city’s textile heritage into modern age with e-textiles workshop and new interactive game.

As you know at Kitronik, we like to be able to provide you with a wide range of materials to build projects with, whether it is our range of perspex and acrylics, our very own Electro-Fashion range, or our laser-cut suitable plywood (laserply) and MDF panels. With this in mind we are delighted to bring to you the addition of Oak Veneered Plywood and Oak Veneer MDF sheets to the range, measuring 600mm x 400mm.

Our friend Julie Boyd, an experienced Design & Technology Consultant, recently exhibited at the Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch Show at the NEC in Birmingham. This was her 3rd Year at the show and was her busiest year to date! Have a read about what she got up to here.

This week sees the 7th annual Gadget Show Live held at the Birmingham NEC from April 8th - 12th, we're there alongside CEL to showcase the Robox printer.

In partnership with Nottingham Trent University’s Design and Technology faculty, Kitronik assisted with a brief for first year undergraduate students, designing and making an item as part of their studying of E-textiles and inspired by our Electro-Fashion ® range. We then went along to their presentation morning to see them present their ideas to their course tutor, and get a good look at them ourselves.

This week we bring you our new desoldering iron/solder sucker, some new soldering iron tips, and some other accessories for your soldering kit.

Last month the BBC launched it’s Make it Digital campaign, a major UK-wide initiative to inspire a new generation to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology. BBC Make it Digital will capture the spirit of the BBC Micro, which helped Britain get to grips with the first wave of personal computers in the 1980s, for the digital age.