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Automating Paper Automata with :CREATE Simple Servo Board for micro:bit

By Kitronik Maker

We recently launched the Kitronik Simple Servo Control Board for BBC micro:bit, and Emma wasted no time in putting together three great resources for it. We've included all three resources below, with all of the files needed and step by step instructions for each.

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How to Make a Steady Hand Project Kit Surgery Game

By Kitronik Maker

This make is a good example of using a kit which looks like it has only one particular purpose in an entirely new way. What was designed as a Steady Hand Game, in which a loop is passed around a wire maze, is here being used as the circuitry for a surgery-themed game instead!

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Using the micro:bit edge-connector with MakeCode Arcade

By Kitronik Maker

Full micro:bit edge connector support has now been added to the MakeCode Arcade editor. To highlight this, Jake from our Dev team has put together a code example to demonstrate the functionality of the micro:bit IO under Makecode Arcade.

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Make a Red Eyed Robot with our Rear Bike Light Project Kit

By Kitronik Maker

This make by Kev, our in-house illustrator/designer, is great for the classroom. It ‎combines electronics and design, and the result will look good on a desk, a shelf, ‎or in a workshop.

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PyLeap CLUE Sensor Plotter

By Adafruit Industries

The CLUE has tons of onboard sensors that can sense movement, ‎light, sound, and environmental measures like temperature and ‎humidity. This project uploads code to the CLUE using PyLeap that ‎uses the CLUE's onboard display to plot all of the sensors' data.

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PyLeap CLUE Barometer

By Adafruit Industries

Leap into measuring barometric pressure!

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Making an Advanced Pico Drawing Robot Arm

By Kitronik Maker

In this blog we are going to cover how to improve on our Cardboard Pico Drawing Robot Arm.

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PyLeap BLE Controlled NeoPixels with CLUE

By Adafruit Industries

Leap into controlling NeoPixels over BLE!

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Making a Cardboard Pico Drawing Robot Arm

By Kitronik Maker

In this first blog of a series we are going to cover how we can create a drawing robot arm out of cardboard using three servos, a Raspberry Pi Pico and the Kitronik Simply Servos for Pico board. Then we’ll move onto how to use the DrawingRobot Python library we created for the Pico.

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Flapping Halloween Vampire Bat

By Adafruit Industries

Do the batty bat with CircuitPython.

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Adding Solar Powered Rechargeable Batteries

By Kitronik Maker

This simple guide shows how you can easily add a solar powered recharging circuit to our new Kitronik LED strip with solder free connections.

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Making a Magic Rabbit with the Kitronik Movement Module

By Kitronik Maker

This adorable little plush rabbit is made from felt, coloured with markers and stuffed with cotton batting, and is a nice easy project in and of itself!