Over the last month, we’ve been adding some new products to our store, and we’re pleased to announce that we now stock a range of Adafruit products.

Adafruit’s Servo Controller

At the moment these mainly consist of items to make your robot flashy, along with a great servo controller board, and a number of small items that we’ve found useful when building, and connecting sensors to our robots. However, we’ll hopefully be expanding the range of Adafruit items we stock in the future, so for now check out the Adafruit section on our website, and please let us know if there’s anything they make that you’d particularly like us to stock.

Seeedstudio 4A Motor Sield

Aside from that, we also have some new products from Seeedstudio. A nifty all in one accelerometer and compass board, and a 4A motor shield for the Arduino for those bigger robotics projects.

Finally, we are also now stocking a few extra Raspberry Pi accessories such as a case and a power supply.

The Official Raspberry Pi 2 Case

Well, it’s a bit after the fact, due to how busy we’ve been lately, but we’re very pleased to announce that we were lucky enough to win the competition for start up funding that we entered earlier this year!

Thank you so much to everyone that voted for us. What this means is that we now have the money to continue developing our robot kit, and producing educational materials to help teachers to teach robot programming in schools. Specifically, we’ll be developing some lesson plans for teaching robotics, and will hopefully be piloting these in a local school or college sometime before the end of the year.

The Jisc funding is delivered as part of a 6 month program, and so we hope to have the final version of the teaching materials ready around the end of January 2016. We’ll try to post a draft version sometime before that though for comments and feedback.