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New STEM Education Section

Our new dedicated STEM pages have been redesigned with new categories containing the best educational items, along with our fantastic new STEM bundles. It's now easier to find the right...

How to make an interactive sound wave print

We're pleased to share with you another great tutorial by our partners at Bare Conductive who have used conductive paint and the touch board in order to make an interactive sound...

Codey Rocky Tutorial One

In this Tutorial we’ll introduce you to the Makerblock App and get you started with the Codey Rocky. Don’t worry there is no coding in this tutorial, but we will get...

Eat the Dots with BBC micro:bit!

In this tutorial we are going to be creating a simple game which will give our player a total of 60 seconds to collect as many dots as possible which...

How To Build IoT Sensors Using Python

Our partners over at Onion have released a tutorial we though we would share with you where you will learn how to build an IoT sensor using Python and the Omega2...

How to make a bookcase light with the Light Up Board

Our partners at Bare Conductive have released another tutorial that we're sharing with you to learn how to make a bookcase light using conductive paint and the Light Up Board.

Create your own Electronic Dice with the BBC micro:bit

In this tutorial we are going to be creating a simple program which will allow us to use our A and B buttons to change the size of a number,...

What is an Anti-Static bag, how do they work? And why are they used with sensitive electronics?

Have you ever bought an electronic or computer component and found it wrapped in an anti-static bag and wondered why we use them? Or how do they work? Here we will...

Lightino Lessons Introduction & Setup

Lightino Lessons Help Sheet

The Basics Statements are grouped together by curly brackets { }, not by indentation (as in Python). You can put newlines and spaces where you like, but your code will...

Lightino Lesson 5: How fast is it spinning?

In previous lessons the code calculated the time for a revolution, so as a final exercise, let's display! Actually, rotational speed is more often measured in revolutions per minute (RPM),...

Lightino Lesson 4: Let's display messages!

You can display messages just as well as patterns since each letter, digit or symbol is just a pattern. Luckily for us, someone has already worked out all the patterns...

Lightino Lesson 3: Hold it! Stop your pattern from spinning!

You will have noticed that the patterns you've made so far spin round, because we haven't told the Lightino when to start during a rotation. This is what the sensor...