18 BRAND NEWPRODUCTS INSIDE!

ENGAGING WITH E-TEXTILES:see inside for new products, tutorials, and news.

MAY 2014 UPDATEDESIGN & TECHNOLOGY:

ALSO INSIDE

New Kitronik WebsiteTeach First Training DaySocial Media newsKitronik invest in aPick and Place Machine

Motors and WheelsArduino and AccessoriesProgrammable LilyPad E-Textiles

NEW PRODUCTS

OUR NEW WEBSITE IS HERE!

We have worked extremely hard to ensure that our new website offers the best possible customer experience for all. We are so happy with the way that the website looks and functions –see the site’s main features below and head to www.kitronik.co.uk to see for yourself!

SEARCH & FILTERING

Our new and improved search engine provides much greater speed and efficiency. You can now also filter our Project Kits, LEDs, and Perspex categories by product features. Sort the results by Key Stage suitability, the price range that suits your budget, and more, by selecting these subcategories further down the page under ‘Shopping Options’.

CHECKOUT

Need your goods sooner than our standard delivery service can provide? You can now upgrade your shipping method!You can also place orders on account, which we’d invoice the school for – please set up an account then get in touch with us to requestthis service.

BLOG

The website now features a Blog, which shall be updated regularly to keep you up-to-date with all of our new products, general Kitronik news, and changes that are made to the D&T Curriculum. We also intend to share articles and projects that we feel are fun, educational and inspiring (of course all D&T related).

www.kitronik.co.uk/motorsandaccessories

Get your project off to the right start with this wheel, which is designed to ‘push fit’ onto our matching 90RPM Geared Hobby Motor that runs off a voltage of 3V to 6V. The wheels are 68mm in diameter,they have a solid plastic rim and rubber treaded tyres. A perfect set of motors and wheels forbuilding your own buggy.

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Right Angle Geared Hobby Motor £1.85£1.90 £1.702547

NEW MOTORS AND WHEELS

LOW INERTIA SOLAR MOTOR

This is a Low Inertia Solar DC Mini Motor.

Description

Low Inertia Solar DC Mini Motor

- Operating voltage: 0.5V to 3V- Axle diameter: 2mm- Starting speed: 1000RPM- Starting current: 30mA at 0.5V

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90MM BLUE THREEBLADE PROPELLER

This large propeller can be usedwith any motor with a 2mm shaft.The diameter is approximately 90mm.The large propeller works nicely with the new Solar Motor above (an example ofthem in use is shown right).

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90mm Blue Three Blade Propeller £0.43

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EXPLORE THE WORLD OF ARDUINO WITH THESE KITS

MAKEY MAKEY

The MaKey MaKey is an Arduino-compatible controller that tricks your computer into thinking that almost anything is a keyboard. This allows you to hook up all kinds of fun things as an input. For example, play Mario with a Play-Doh keyboard, or piano with fruit!

£30.00

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REDBOARD STARTER KIT

RedBoard Starter Kit is a great kit for electronics and Arduino programming.This kit is essentially a mini SparkFun Inventor's Kit that includes the SparkFun RedBoard (programmed with Arduino, justlike the Arduino Uno), USB Mini-B cable,and a multitude of parts and sensors.

£30.00

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www.kitronik.co.uk/redboardstarterkitguide

www.kitronik.co.uk/arduinoThe MaKey MaKey in use

ARDUINO ACCESSORIES

BASIC 16x2CHARACTER LCD

This is a 16 character by 2 line display that runs at 3.3V. It uses the ST7066/HD44780 parallel interface - the interface code is widely available for many different controllers and systems.

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ARDUINO ANDBREADBOARD HOLDER

A prototyping holder for a breadboard and any other board that has the Arduino mounting holes such as the Arduino Uno, RedBoard, The Leonardo and FEZ Panda.

£2.50

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BREADBOARD WITHBINDING POSTS

This is a standard solderless breadboard with three binding posts, two power buses, and black aluminium plate backing. It works with a wide variety of wire gauges.

£8.00

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JUMPER WIRES

These Jumper Wires are 20cm in length and are sold in packs of 10, one of each colour. The M/F variety has a male connector on one end and female on the other. The M/M variety has male connectors on both ends.

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TEACH FIRST, TEACH E-TEXTILES

The Teach First Training Day was held on Tuesday 25th February at Highgate School, London (all thanks to Andy Thompson, the school’s Head of D&T, and Joy Palmer from Teach First who organised the event). There were six Teach First teachers in total, all of whom undertook a short intensive teacher training program during the summer of 2013 and consequently started teaching in September. By the end of this year they will all be fully qualified teachers.

What does ‘Teach First’ do? Teach First ‘find, train and support people to become brilliant teachers, inspiring the young people who need them the most’. To help in this mission, Kevin from Kitronik delivered an E-Textiles workshop

using products from our Electro-Fashion range. All of the teachers made their own E-Textiles circuit with Kevin’s guidance.

Later in the day, Kevin trained three members of staff and one Highgate student in using the LilyPad products. Whereas the success of an E-Textile circuit made up of Electro-Fashion components depends mostly on sewing technique and the connection between the components, the ProtoSnap LilyPad Development Board focuses on programming (see page 9).

www.teachfirst.org.uk

@Kitronik - Feb 25 - 5.25am

Just got on the train in Nottingham. Heading to London to deliver a days E-Textile training to Teach First teachers. It feels early!

MORE E-TEXTILES NEWS

www.kitronik.co.uk/ntuetextilesE-TEXTILE PROJECTS BY NOTTINGHAMTRENT UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES

The OCR Raspberry Jamboree, held at Manchester Central on 27th and 28th February 2014, was the second international convention sharing the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi™ computer. Raspberry Jamboree Party Bags, containing all kinds of useful Raspberry Pi accessories, were given out to the lucky visitors. The sewable circuit projects that featured on the Party Bags (using Electro- Fashion products) were a massive hit!

ELECTRO-FASHION FEATURES ONTHE RASPBERRY JAMBOREE,MANCHESTER, GOODY BAG!

We had the pleasure of seeing and supporting a number of undergraduate E-Textiles projects from the initial designs right through to the final stages. We loved working with the students and are really impressed with the level of detail that went into each design. This dreamcatcher-inspired dress is one of the projects that has been delicately finished with whitesewable LEDs.

ELECTRO-FASHIONLIGHTSENSORS

PROTOSNAP E-TEXTILES KITS FOR BEGINNERS

LILYPAD E-SEWING KIT

The E-Sewing Kit pairs a LilyPad coin cell breakout board with a switch, a button, and five LEDs. This kit even includes a needle set, conductive thread, a battery and a fabric template so that you can start your project as soon as you open the box.

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LILYTWINKLE

Bring some sparkle to your project with this board, which includes the LilyTwinkle (programmed to send the LEDs twinkling once connected with conductive thread (included), a coin cell battery holder (with built-in switch), and four white LEDs.

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Consisting of a LilyPad Simple Board, a buzzer, vibration motor, RGB LED, a button, switch, five LEDs, a light sensor, and a temperature sensor, this board lets you dive right into wearable electronics. Once you’ve learned how to program the LilyPad Arduino Simple Board, break apart the components ready to be sewn into your textiles design using conductive thread (included) and explore thepower of the LilyPad platform.

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Description

ProtoSnap - LilyPad Development Board £35.00

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The ProtoSnap series is great for GCSE students looking to add more advanced features to a wearable project. Students can now prototype their projects without a breadboard. Everything is wired together on a single board, which makes it easy to explore the possibilities of the components before snapping them apart and building them into your project.

LILYPAD DEVELOPMENT BOARD

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JOIN THE E-TEXTILES CRAZE WITH OUR EXTENDED LILYPAD RANGE

LILYPAD PIXEL BOARD

The LilyPad Pixel Board will light up in whatever colour you like. You can even chain several boards together to form a display or an addressable string for full effect.

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LILYTINY

LilyTiny is a quick and easy way to add twinkling lights to a project without any programming or a bulky Main Board. Simply sew on 4 LEDs and connect a battery and the LEDs will each blinkor fade differently.

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LILYPAD VIBE BOARD

Apply 5V and be shaken by this small, but powerful, vibration motor. It works great as a physical indicator without notifying anyonebut the wearer.

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LILYPAD PROTOBOARD SMALL

This is a small board for prototyping through hole components with the LilyPad system. There arean array of pins all shorted together with 10mil traces. This allows for quick and easy prototyping - all you have to do is cut the traces between the holes that you don't want connected!

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You can find our full range of LilyPad products at: www.kitronik.co.uk/lilypad

LOOKING FOR SOME E-TEXTILES INSPIRATION?

We have so many E-Textiles tutorials and resources for you to choose from: from the very basic ‘How to Make a Basic E-Textile Circuit’ resource to more intricate tutorials such as ‘How to Make a Rocket Key Ring LED Torch’. Our easy to follow guides illustrate just how easy and fun E-Textiles projectsare and, at the very least, aim to inspire.

The rocket torch uses reflective fabric and three LEDs that are activated by a push switch:designed to help you find small items in your bag in low light conditions.

EXAMPLE TUTORIAL: HOW TO MAKE A ROCKET TORCH KEY RING LED TORCH

MATERIALS ANDCOMPONENTSNEEDED FORTHIS PROJECT

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CREATE THEE-TEXTILECIRCUIT

3STITCH THE ROCKETLAYERS TOGETHER,LIGHTLY STUFF, &PUSH TO ACTIVATE!

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MORE TUTORIALS – FOR SEASONAL FESTIVITIES AND FOR PLEASURE

DOG WITH MAGNET-ACTIVATED LED NOSE

VALENTINE MAGNET-ACTIVATED LED HEARTS

www.kitronik.co.uk/etextilestutorials

www.kitronik.co.uk/rockettorchtutorial

PICK AND PLACE MACHINE

THE PICK AND PLACE MACHINE IN ACTION; ELECTRO-FASHION LED FLASHER UNITS IN PRODUCTION

Rather than manually picking surface mount components from a reel and placing them onto PCBs (which was the process for our Electro-Fashion Sewable PCB LEDs), we have invested in a Pick and Place Machine (P‘n’P Machine) to do all of the fiddly work for us.With this machine up and running, all that we

have to do is hit the ‘Start’ button and the P‘n’P Machine will perform this component placement for us.

The P‘n’P Machine saves minutes, even hours, during a typical day in production and ensures that we have plenty of stock on our shelves.

Apply solder paste onto the PCB. Insert the PCB into the Pick and PlaceMachine and run the commands to

place the components.

Allow to cool and test!Once the components have been placed,send the PCB through the reflow ovento melt the solder paste.

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DOES YOUR D&T DEPARTMENT HAVE A SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT?

We are seeing more and more Design and Technology departments creating social media accounts. Online platforms such as Twitter and Facebook provide an incredibly useful forum for sharing the Electronic and E-Textiles projects that your students have worked so hard at developing. Not only do the students love the extra support, but we (and other D&T departments) love to see them!

We update our Twitter and Facebook pages daily with the hope of bringing you both inspiration and support in teaching, learning, and taking part in Design and Technology projects.Upload photographs of your projects andplease tag us in them!

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Product Design Docking Station and FM Radio prototypes shared with us on Twitter.

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