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Following two hugely successful shows last year and the year before, the NTU Year 2 Design & Technology Education students had kindly invited us to attend this year's End of Year Show.

With our Solar Powered Buggy, learning how to harness the sun's energy to produce power is fun and hands-on. We have also extended our LilyPad range for those of you that are into E-Textiles (and music...)!

Into your smart textiles? This Blog is for you!

Our range of speakers is extending and now includes a small Surface Transducer, Subminiature High Power Speakers and Round/Square Mylar Cone Speakers.

At the UK Maker Faire 2014, LoveScience had several activities that families and young makers could get involved with, such as adding LEDs to animal and robot card templates using Electric Paint, painting your own ‘scratch and sniff card’, and learning how thermocratic paint works.

Our new products this week include Heating Pads, Jumper Leads in packs of 40, and Alkaline Batteries at an economical price.

For us, like so many others, Maker Fun was a definite Maker Faire highlight; the combination of craft and technology was deeply inspiring and it was clear that the mini makers were hugely engaged!

Our range of fun, educational kits is extending and now includes the WeevilEye, a Binary Blaster Kit, and a H2OhNo! ATtiny Dev Board / Water Alarm.

We were blown away by the work that York Hackspace had put into their SpaceHack Game, which they exhibited at the UK Maker Faire in Newcastle, April 2014. Find out more here!

Our new products this week include a 5V 2.5A Mains Wall Power Supply with UK, EU, US and AU Adaptors, a 9V PP3 Battery Clip Lead to 2.1mm DC Connector, a Resistor Kit and a Beginner Parts Kit.

Design & Make the Future 2014 was run by Teach Design and took place on Saturday 10th May at the National STEM Centre in York. The day was packed with a combination of keynotes, workshops, networking and exhibitions.

Looking to develop a fun, hands-on and interactive Electronics project? Are you a keen gamer? Looking for new ways to deliver the Computing Curriculum? Ever considered building your own game controller...?

We have newly Retail Packaged Project Kits (for Electronics and E-Textiles) that we're bursting to tell you about...

Maker Faire UK took place at the Life Science Centre in Newcastle on April 26-27 and, boy, wasn't it a good one!

Our Arduino range is extending and now includes the MaKey MaKey Kit, the Starter Kit for RedBoard and many more accessories!

Maker Faire UK 2014 Preview - Kitronik's preparation and a selection of the Faire's main attractions.

Our Motors and Accessories range is extending and now includes a Geared Motor with matching tyre, a Solar Motor, and a large propeller.

The main features of our new website.

Our LilyPad range is extending and now includes ProtoSnap E-Textiles Kits for beginners and more!

We recently set Edward Bennigsen (the young digital maker at Make Things Do Stuff) a one week challenge to see what he could achieve with the Laika Inventor's Kit. Over to Edward!