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Value Acrylic Vanity Mirror with LED lighting

By Kitronik Maker

This vanity mirror incorporates some easy soldering and uses some of our special finish Value Acrylics. Once plugged into a USB wall plug, the LEDs inside will light up the viewer for optimal makeup application, beard trimming and silly-face-making. Read on to find out how you can make it!

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Laser-Cut Birdhouse from Poplar Plywood

By Kitronik Maker

This project is a brilliant base for further customisation. Change the designs on the walls, scale it, make a bracket to affix it to a wall, or a loop to hang it from a tree.

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BBC micro:bit Pedestrian Crossing Project

By Kitronik Maker

This Pedestrian Crossing project was submitted to us by Thomas Stratford. Thomas started this project to try out the pre-written code that came with the IET Pedestrian Crossing resource. The aim is to use the BBC micro:bit to develop a prototype for a pedestrian crossing for a local secondary school.

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How to Make a Simple Air Freshener Enclosure

By Kitronik Maker

Our Air Freshener Kit is one of the most featured kits in our Student Gallery, and for good reason! It requires a good amount of design thinking, but the enclosure itself can be quite abstract or take on a great number of forms.

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Laser-Cut Cathedral Radio Style Mono Amp Kit Enclosure

By Kitronik Maker

Based loosely on the appearance of a 1930s Cathedral Radio, this make utilises the Mono Amplifier Kit that comes with a status LED and switch and swaps out the surface mounted switch for a round rocker switch that can be mounted to the outside for easier access.

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Value Acrylic Custom Phone Holder

By Kitronik Maker

This is a nice easy project for a class just learning how to laser cut and heat bend acrylic.

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Kitronik Arcade for BBC micro:bit and MakeCode Arcade

By Kitronik Maker

If you want to learn to code, learning to write games is a great way to get started, and our new hand held gamer has everything you need right now and it also has the connectivity for everything you might need tomorrow.

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The Kitronik ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade

By Kitronik Maker

Introducing the new ARCADE Max for Makecode Arcade from Kitronik, gamification has never been this exciting! It’s our smallest handheld gamer to date but packs the biggest screen we’ve ever had!

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Getting to grips with the Kitronik Klaw, BBC micro:bit, and MakeCode!

By Kitronik Maker

For the budding Roboteer, learning how to add and control actuators is a key skill. In this guide, we are going to take a look at our servo driven Klaw actuator,* and show you how to control it via code.

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Exploring AI with MakeCode CreateAI and the BBC micro:bit

By Kitronik Maker

CreateAI for BBC micro:bit brings AI to life through movement and play, perfect for curious young minds.

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A Guide on Working with Mirrored Acrylic

By Kitronik Maker

Mirrors are a great maker project to undertake because of their versatility in design and the fascinating history they carry.

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An Introduction To 3D Design In 123D Design

By Kitronik Maker

This is a step by step guide for using free design tools to create 2D and 3D designs for 3D printing and is intended as an introduction to 3D design.

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How to Manage Packages for Pico in Thonny

By Kitronik Maker

In this guide we are going to look at how you can use the package manager in Thonny to download the libraries for Kitronik products directly onto your Raspberry Pi Pico.

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Raspberry Pi Pico Battery Voltmeter in Python

By Kitronik Maker

In this tutorial we’ll demonstrate how a Raspberry Pi Pico can be used along with some simple electronic components and Python code to record the voltage of a AA battery.