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MonkMakes - Now Available in Australia at Small Devices

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MonkMakes - Now Available in Australia at Small Devices

We're excited to be stocking the excellent MonkMakes kits and interface boards for the BBC micro:bit and Raspberry Pi. Having grown out of the inspiring educational books by Simon Monk,

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Which Leads and Prototyping Boards Do you Need for Your BBC micro:bit?

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Which Leads and Prototyping Boards Do you Need for Your BBC micro:bit?

There's a range of different leads and prototyping boards for the BBC micro:bit - this post walks you through from the very basic to the more elaborate, and explains when you might want to use each type.

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5 Pimoroni Raspberry Pi Zero W Kits to Build

5 Pimoroni Raspberry Pi Zero W Kits to Build

 These kits all come with  a Raspberry Pi Zero W - so as a gift, the recipient can always recycle the Pi Zero for other projects, or combine it with all manner of other add-on boards (pHATs and HATs). Each kit comes with: a handy plastic storage container required cables pin headers (alternatively - if you're not ready to solder, simply use solderless headers to make things easier full instructions online So you can see exactly what you're getting, we've included a  layout of each kit's included parts. Except for the Starter Kit, you'll also need a microSD card for each of these kits. Since the Raspberry Pi...

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The Circuit Playground Express - available in Australia at Small Devices

The Circuit Playground Express - available in Australia at Small Devices

The Circuit Playground Express is a fine way to prototype your coolest ideas in Python! From wearable e-textiles, through to robots and displays..

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3 Quality Devices to Expand Your Projects

3 Quality Devices to Expand Your Projects

We've picked some great items from Adafruit, Proto-pic, and Pimoroni, that we're excited to have in stock: Adafruit Circuit Playground Express Based on the older Circuit Playground Classic, The Circuit Playground Express has a much more powerful ATSAMD21 ARM Cortex M0 Processor, running at 3.3V and 48MHz! Being more powerful, the Express can now be programmed using: Microsoft MakeCode (a visual drag and drop interface also used for the BBC micro:bit); CircuitPython (based on MicroPython); or Arduino (a simplified version of C) If you know the BBC micro:bit, the Circuit Playground Express can be programmed in a similar manner, but...

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