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The Crafty Robot packed up his Fizzbits and paper cutter and flew to Rome to join 2500 other makers at the official Maker Faire Europe.

The last (for now) of our new breakout boards are now on the shelves. We complete the set with an Ambient Light Sensor Breakout Board, a Current Sensor Breakout Board (ACS711) and a Relay Control Breakout Board.

The first ever Creator Fair at the National Space Centre. An Electro-Fashion Workshop. some old friends and new faces.

We have been working hard to develop a variety of breakout boards with the idea of making it easier for you to connect a whole range of devices into your project. This week we are introducing our new Motor / Stepper Motor Drive Board and a 3 Axis Accelerometer Breakout Board.

We have been working hard to develop a variety of breakout boards with the idea of making it easier for you to connect a whole range of devices into your project. We have eight new Breakout Boards in total, this week we begin with the Temperature Sensor and Digital Barometer Breakout Boards.

The Fizzbit is a way to bring movement and excitement to mini-figures of your own invention. It is a small module containing a vibration motor, super capacitor and USB socket, which can plug directly into a computer or USB power supply. Slot the charged Fizzbit into your mini-figure and watch it battle, race and dance around.

Our range of soldering tools is extending and now includes a 60W Digital Soldering Station, a 25W Economy Soldering Iron (Mains Powered), an Economy Soldering Iron Stand, solder extractor, leaded solder and a Multicore, No-clean, Quality Solder Mop.

From September 2014, teaching children to learn and write code will be a mandatory requirement across all primary and secondary schools in England. With these new changes, we've introduced a whole host of new Raspberry Pi add-on boards, hardware drivers, accessories and starter packs.

Is your D&T Department prepared for the start of term? With the summer holidays drawing to a close, we have stripped our new product lines back to basics with yet more hand tools!

These new E-Textiles kits from Kitronik have been specially designed so that electronics can easily be used in textile applications - without soldering!

Hand tools are a D&T Department's best friend and these new screwdrivers are great value for very little money! You can now pick yourself up a set of 6 Duratool Precision Screwdrivers for just £3.36 (inc. VAT)!

Back in June 2014 we sold our 250,000th MP3 Mono Amplifier Project Kit, making it our best selling project kit so far! Having smashed the quarter of a million mark, we're dedicating this week's Newsy-Blog to the mighty Mono Amp Kit itself.

As well as being available to buy in kit form and also with the PCB pre-built, we have made the cutting files for our Vibrobug Kit available for you to laser cut your own.

Rather than manually picking surface mount components from a reel and placing them onto PCBs (which used to be the manufacturing process for our Electro-Fashion Sewable PCB LEDs), we have invested in a Pick and Place Machine to do all of the fiddly work for us. See the machine in action here!

Our range of speakers continues to expand and now includes a Wide Range PA Loudspeaker, Kevlar Cone Woofers, Square and Round Dome Tweeters, a Piezo Tweeter, and 2 Way Passive Crossovers.

Kitronik Ltd. is dedicated to the field of Design and Technology: the teachers that teach it, the students that study it, and the hobbyists that exercise it. Meet the team here!

Our Birch Laser Plywood sheets have proved so popular with schools and makers that we have decided to supply Poplar Laser Plywood and Laser Grade MDF. How is Poplar different to Birch Laser Plywood? Find out here!

Our new lamp kit is Micro USB-compatible and is a great project for KS3 and GCSE students.

Geoff was given a design brief to make a simple Electronics gadget for a Cub spy-themed camp on June 20 - 22 at Bowley Campsite, Manchester. See what they got up to.

This week, we have a new Pre-Built MP3 Mono Amplifier (V2.0) for you keen Product Designers out there and Conductive Ribbon for those of you who are into your wearables!