Resources

Get up and running quickly with the five minute microbit guide. It covers everything you need to begin using your microbit straightway. First of all, we cover the essential topics required to get you up and running. Find out more!

We wanted some new artwork for the office walls when we move to our new premises next month and last weekend I had spent the day with family at Highfields Park boating lake. I decided this would make an interesting piece for a laser cut map as the contrast between the water and land is easy to show. The same technique could be used for any area with both water and land in it.

It had to happen sooner or later but we've now outgrown our current HQ and we are now moving! A new HQ has been sourced and is now being prepared for our arrival. The move will allow us to expand our stocked range of products significantly.

ZIP LEDs Experiment 10 for the ZIP LEDs Add-On Pack for the Kitronik Inventors Kit for the microbit. This experiment covers how to use a potentiometer to control the speed at which an LED spins around a ring. This experiment is not in the booklet and is only available online. Find out more...

We have created some fantastic free :GAME ZIP 64 cases resources to make your gamer stand out. Use a 3D printer or laser cutter to make these great cases. Find out how!

We have just added our new custom :GAME ZIP 64 MakeCode Blocks to the Microsoft MakeCode Editor. The 14 blocks are specifically designed to make coding games as quick and painless as possible. Learn more here!

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 is a short guide detailing pairing a microbit that's already attached to a :MOVE mini. If you forgot to pair it with your phone before completing assembly, then this is the guide for you! We'll show you that having an inaccessible reset button is not a problem.

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.

In this new product news roundup, we've got a mixture of new lines, re-introduced lines, a special offer, and some free coding resources. Quite a mixed bag, we think you'll agree. Find out more...

We are very pleased to introduce the Kitronik Parent's Complete Guide To The BBC micro:bit. We've created this free resource to help parent's get actively involved in helping their children learn how to code. The guide contains everything you need to introduce your children to the microbit, even if you have no prior coding experience yourself.

This is a guide for calibrating 360-degree servos for use with :MOVE mini for the BBC microbit. To make the task a little easier we created a couple of custom blocks for the Microsoft MakeCode editor.

How we approached the development of the Christmas bells for our twelve makes of Christmas resource last December and our prototyping process.

Kitronik are heading back to ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock for the BETT Show 2018. We will be joined by 850 other leading companies, bringing with us ideas and tech to help shape the future of education.

The Kitronik Jan 2018 D&T update flyer is now out and it's choc full of great new products! If you don't yet have your hard copy, we've also put it online for your convenience.

Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) are made from layers of fibre glass and copper, glued together. Whilst the glues used are very heat resistant it is possible to overheat a PCB and damage it. Learn how to repair a damaged one here.

We would like to wish all of out a customers a very happy Christmas and New Year from all of us at Kitronik. Thanks to you it's been a great year and we can't wait to see what the next one brings!

We'll be taking a well earned break over Christmas as usual this year. We'll be finishing on Friday the 22nd December at 4.30 as normal and we'll be back in on January the 2nd.

We've got some great new product news and stocking filler ideas to share with you. If you're struggling for gift ideas, we might just have something below that will put a smile on someone's face this Christmas.