Resources

New Product Update: Back to School Tools
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!

New Product Update: New Electro-Fashion Sewable Light Kits
These new E-Textiles kits from Kitronik have been specially designed so that electronics can easily be used in textile applications - without soldering!

New Product Update: Back to School Tools
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)!

We Have Sold Our 250,000th Mono Amplifier!
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.

Vibrobug Cutting Files & Parts
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.

Kitronik Have Invested in a Pick and Place Machine
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!

New Product Update: Our Range of Speakers Continues to Grow!
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.

About Us: Take A Step Inside Kitronik HQ
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!

New Product Update: Laser Materials!
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!

Teaching Resources
This one stop page features all of our teaching resources for our own kits and modules, as well as cutting files, and other resources for kits we sell. Find out more!

New Product Update: Micro USB Lamp Kit - Sustainable Lamp Design Made Easy
Our new lamp kit is Micro USB-compatible and is a great project for KS3 and GCSE students.

Cub Spy-themed Camp: Cubs Build Lie Detectors!
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.

New Product Update: Pre-built MP3 Mono Amplifier (V2.0) and Conductive Ribbon
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!

Now Shipping to (and Supporting) the USA (and Canada)!
So we're delighted to announce that we can now ship to the US (and Canada!) via UPS!

NTU BSc (Hons) Secondary D&T Education End of Year Show!
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.

New Product Update: Want an Easy Way to Learn About Solar Energy? Try Our New Solar Powered Buggy!
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...)!

Allenomis Enter The Fold Bring Their Responsive Textiles Designs to Maker Faire UK
Into your smart textiles? This Blog is for you!

New Product Update: Discover Crystal Clear Audio With Our New Range of Speakers!
Our range of speakers is extending and now includes a small Surface Transducer, Subminiature High Power Speakers and Round/Square Mylar Cone Speakers.

LoveScience at the UK Maker Faire, April 26-27
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.

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