Kits

Make a list, email it to us and we’ll raise a Paypal invoice the items you need. This gives us an opportunity to discuss what you need, how you hope to use it in the classroom and what we can do for you.

The kits listed below have been extensively tested in educational settings, supported by graphical documentation ensuring learners (and educators) succeed. We post any number to £1 P&P to UK or at cost worldwide. For those self-sourcing, we can ship individual components. Prices below any European suppliers we have seen.

Shrimp core components	components for Arduino Uno compatible, (UART & Breadboard not included)	£4.00
POV kit	incl 400pt breadboard, 3xAAA holder, (UART & Shrimp not included)	£3.25
Memory Game	MB Games’ Simon remix, incl. 2x170pt breadboards, (UART & Shrimp not included)	£5.15
Stripboard kit	incl. copper veroboard  – free up breadboard and solder your prototype permanently, (UART and Shrimp not included)	£1.30
Programmer kit	a CP2102 USB to UART with DTR pad/pin to program any kit	£3.30
400 point breadboard	with power rails, as used in POV kit – cost £6.12 from Proto-pic	£2.00
170 point mini-breadboard	Memory Game kit includes two of these – cost £2.69 from from Proto-pic	£1.20
3xAAA holder	battery pack with switch powers a Shrimp, as used in POV kit	£1.00

If you’re doing your builds without reliable internet, we’re interested in testing out a Linux/Mac/Windows CD containing the software and documents you need, so let us know if this would be useful for you.

Our prices are calculated according to twice our wholesale costs, plus tax and shipping, which helps us to cover our costs. Click through the link to see the full component count, suppliers and prices to source them direct  yourself, though it’s only really economic if you’re provisioning your own workshop events, (around 50 plus – not worth it for hobbyists). Don’t leave ordering too late, as bagging, soldering DTR pins and bootloading ATMEGA chips will take you a while if you’re handling large numbers. Let us know if there’s anything we missed.

If you want to remix your own kits, our diagrams are available here and are CC-BY-NC-SA licensed, so feel free to use them for non-commercial purposes (e.g. selling on to kids, hackspace members, or whatever).

Over coming months we hope to look into the following promising directions for new projects and kits which document build processes with electronics prototyping materials…

• Reversi Game – implemented with a two-color 8×8 LED matrix and a touchscreen digitizer.
• Two wheeled robot, based on stepper motors and Pyfirmata control – though a people should look first to a ShrimpBot  until we’ve figured this one out, which has the benefit of actually existing
• Raspberry Pi Shrimp kit – an Arduino-compatible hardware breakout which needs no CP2102 for the cost of a coffee.
• Steady Hand Game – potential for sculpting your own ‘outline images’ with coat hangers for this one to personalise it
• Electronic dice – with a pizza-pie window but using a servo underneath, with your own crafted  ‘card’ to define what the six choices are.
• POV with solar engine, meaning 2 could be attached to opposite blades of a wind-turbine.
• Stylophone – needs some kind of hardware solution for a stylophone or ‘drawdio-style’ touch keyboard. Possibly could use a resistor network and judge the analog voltage, meaning it only uses one pin to sense. Possibly would make it easy to have more pins doing other stuff – lots of LEDs?
• Audio demonstration (input and output) following Amanda Ghassaei’s amazing instructables
• Alarms which detect a special deactivation knock for…
  • bedroom (door)
  • guarding coke cans (detect conductive touch)
  • a sports bag or vehicle (movement)

It would also be really useful to have Audio samples recorded or played back from an SD card for many applications, as demonstrated by www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Audio-Output/ and www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Audio-Input/