Books & Educational Material
Browse our range of books and educational materials for electronics, coding, and STEM learning. From beginner Arduino guides to advanced maker project books, you'll find printed resources covering robotics, Python, Raspberry Pi, and more.
Great for classrooms, homeschool programs, hobbyists, and anyone keen to learn by building. We stock titles suited to all skill levels, from kids through to experienced makers.
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Unplugged Tots
SKU: RP-MAG83 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Introduce your child to the foundations of computer coding so that they have the skills for their future, now. Prepare children to be the problem-solvers, inventors, engineers, scientists, and technologists of tomor...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Book of Making - Volume 2
SKU: RP-MAG27 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
The Book of Making Volume 2 collects the best maker projects from the second year of HackSpace magazine into 180 pages of hands-on guides, tips, tricks, and inspiration. From building and launching your own rocket to ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Make: mBot for Makers
SKU: LB-MBOTBOOK | Brand: Little Bird
The mBot robotics platform is a hugely popular kit because of the quality of components and price. With hundreds of thousands of these kits out there in homes, schools and makerspaces, there is much untapped potential...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius
SKU: TB-BM7134 | Brand: Little Bird
A hands-on project book by Simon Monk featuring 30 practical Arduino-based builds. Each project includes component lists and step-by-step instructions, taking you from basic circuits through to more advanced builds us...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Bots! Robotics Engineering with Hands-On Makerspace Activities - By Kathy Ceceri
SKU: AF-4348 | Brand: Adafruit
We are very excited to carry a new book by Adafruit Learning System author and maker Kathy Ceceri! Robots are everywhere! They vacuum our houses, work in our factories, help us learn at school, and play with...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Robotics, Mechatronics, and Artificial Intelligence : Experimental Circuit Blocks for Designers
SKU: LB-0750673893 | Brand: Little Bird
Accessible to all readers, including students of secondary school and amateur technology enthusiasts, Robotics, Mechatronics, and Artificial Intelligence simplifies the process of finding basic circuits to perform sim...
Delivered by Tue 7 Jul
Raspberry Pi User Guide, 4th Edition
SKU: PI-BK0114 | Brand: Pimoroni
Learn the Raspberry Pi 3 from the experts! Raspberry Pi User Guide, 4th Edition is the "unofficial official" guide to everything Raspberry Pi 3. Written by the Pi's creator and a leading Pi guru, this book goes straig...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches
SKU: TB-BM7133 | Brand: Little Bird
This entry level book explains what an Arduino microcontroller actually is (i.e. a very small stand alone computer), introduces you to the Arduino programming language (called, C) and then describes the basic configur...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Getting Started with Adafruit FLORA
SKU: AF-1839 | Brand: Adafruit
Making Wearables with an Arduino-Compatible Electronics PlatformThis book introduces readers to building wearable electronics projects using Adafruit's tiny FLORA board: at 4.4 grams, and only 1.75 inches in diameter...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Python for Microcontrollers: Getting Started with MicroPython
SKU: AF-3325 | Brand: Adafruit
MicroPython is a tiny open-source Python programming language interpreter that runs on microcontroller, originally written by Damien George (http://micropython.org/). With MicroPython you can write clean and simple...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Elektor MIT App Inventor Bundle
SKU: SF-KIT-18006 | Brand: SparkFun
The Elektor MIT App Inventor Bundle is a kit built to help learn about developing apps for Android compatible mobile devices using the MIT App Inventor online development environment. MIT App Inventor projects can be ...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
HackSpace Magazine Issue #25 - Maker Christmas - December 2019
SKU: AF-4501 | Brand: Adafruit
HackSpace Magazine is the monthly magazine for the modern maker, published by Raspberry Pi Press. Issue #25 (December 2019) is the Maker Christmas edition, highlighting the best toys, tools, and trinkets for your hack...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Sensor Projects with Raspberry Pi : Internet of Things and Digital Image Processing
SKU: LB-1484252985 | Brand: Little Bird
A hands-on guide to building IoT and image processing projects with the Raspberry Pi. Starting with simple sensor circuits, the book progressively introduces cloud connectivity, real-time alerts, and computer vision —...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
The Green Screen Makerspace Project Book
SKU: LB-1260019950 | Brand: Little Bird
Take your video projects to the next level with the power of green screen!This easy-to-follow guide clearly explains green screen technology and shows, step-by-step, how to dream up and create professional-grade video...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Textile Messages : Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education
SKU: LB-1433119196 | Brand: Little Bird
Textile Messages focuses on the emerging field of electronic textiles, or e-textiles - computers that can be soft, colourful, approachable, and beautiful. E-textiles are articles of clothing, home furnishings, or...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Adventures in Coding
SKU: LB-ADVCODING | Brand: Little Bird
Learn to code from scratch with 11 hands-on projects using the Scratch programming language. Written by coding experts Eva Holland and Chris Minnick, Adventures in Coding takes complete beginners from zero to app-buil...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Adventures in Raspberry Pi, 3rd Edition
SKU: PI-BK0102 | Brand: Pimoroni
A fun, project-based guide to learning programming on the Raspberry Pi, written for kids aged 11–15 with no experience required. Author Carrie Anne Philbin (Director of Education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation) walks ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Circuit Patterns Trading Cards from Arachnid Labs
SKU: AF-1474 | Brand: Adafruit
If you're an industrial designer, chances are you've got a set of IDEO method cards. If you're an artist or musician, maybe you like to flip through a set of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies. And if you're an engineer, ...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Toolshed Journal - by Lee John Phillips
SKU: AF-3756 | Brand: Adafruit
In 2013, illustrator Lee John Phillips began a project of one drawing a day, documenting the miscellanea from his late grandfather's shed. Phillips' Shed Project has enjoyed widespread coverage in the media and around...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Ada Twist, Scientist
SKU: LB-00315 | Brand: Little Bird
Ada Twist, Scientist is a picture book by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts. Ada has always been insatiably curious — why are there pointy things on a rose? Why are there hairs growing inside your nose? Wh...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun