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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Make: Magazine - Vol 61 - Spotlight Shenzhen - with Naomi Wu @RealSexyCyborg
SKU: AF-3717 | Brand: Adafruit
Make: Volume 61 features one of our absolute favorite makers, Naomi Wu, better known online as @RealSexyCyborg! We are so thrilled she's getting this exposure that we want everyone to have a copy of the maga...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Rosie Revere, Engineer
SKU: LB-00314 | Brand: Little Bird
A beautifully-illustrated tale of a girl and her dream to become a great engineer. Where some people see rubbish, Rosie Revere sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Iggy Peck, Architect
SKU: LB-00317 | Brand: Little Bird
| Iggy has one passion: architecture. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials. But hey! What’s wrong with a tower built of diapers? (Even dirty ones!...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Ladyada's Coloring book - R is for Robots
SKU: AF-1936 | Brand: Adafruit
Ladyada's R is for Robotics is an A-to-Z colouring book adventure featuring robots, their inventors, and the history of robotics. From Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics to the Jacquard loom, each page combines art...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Class
SKU: SF-BOK-12006 | Brand: SparkFun
A guide for educators on bringing the maker movement into K–12 classrooms. The book explores how 3D printing, robotics, programming, wearable computing, and Arduino can combine with hands-on learning traditions to tur...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Learning the Art of Electronics - A Hands-On Lab Course
SKU: AF-3066 | Brand: Adafruit
Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz is a practical companion to the classic textbook The Art of Electronics. Designed for students with no prior electronics know...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Making Android Accessories with IOIO
SKU: SF-BOK-11135 | Brand: SparkFun
The Android operating system is becoming more and more popular among embedded device manufacturers making it evermore practical to create devices that can interface with Android. Now you can create your own electronic...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets
SKU: SF-BOK-10626 | Brand: SparkFun
Want to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, or control devices with a computer? It’s a snap with this book and the Arduino open source electronic prototyping platform. Get started with six fun proj...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
An Instructive Appreciation of Buttons and Switches
SKU: SF-BOK-25433 | Brand: SparkFun
Buttons and switches might seem simple, but this zine digs into the clever details behind these everyday components. It is full of button facts and practical ideas for understanding how these mechanisms can do more th...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide 4th Ed
SKU: RP-MAG38 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Fully updated for Raspberry Pi 400, Raspberry Pi 4, and the latest software, this 252-page official Raspberry Pi book is crammed with projects and beginner’s guides containing all the information you need to get st...
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Beginner - Basic Kit for Arduino with Guide Book
SKU: EC-ACK02124K | Brand: Elecrow
A comprehensive beginner kit for learning Arduino, electronics fundamentals, and basic programming. The kit includes a printed guide book with 13 step-by-step experiments covering LEDs, buttons, sensors, displays, and...
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Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi 2nd Edition
SKU: RP-MAG57 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Discover how to set up Raspberry Pi to play classic games in the brand new version of our retro gaming guide. In this 164-page book, you’ll learn how to build a portable games machine, assemble a full-sized arcade ...
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Raspberry Pi Quick-Start Guide
SKU: LB-RPI3-QUICKSTART | Brand: Little Bird
The Raspberry Pi Quick-Start Guide is a handbook that has distilled the steps needed to get your Raspberry Pi up and running in Australia. The guide has information how to set the localisation for Australia, how to...
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Create Graphical User Interfaces with Python
SKU: RP-MAG39 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Add buttons, boxes, pictures and colours and more to your Python programs using the guizero library, which is quick, accessible, and understandable for all. This 156-page book is suitable for everyone, from beginn...
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The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide
SKU: RP-MAG22 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Learn how to Set up your Raspberry Pi, install the operating system, and start using this fully functional computer Start coding projects, with step-by-step guides using the Scratch and Python programming languages Ex...
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Learn to solder
SKU: PI-BK0409 | Brand: Pimoroni
Learn the fundamentals of soldering—and pick up an essential skill for building electronic gadgets. You’ll discover how to preheat and tin your iron, make a good solder joint, de-solder cleanly (when things don't q...
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Build Your Own First-Person Shooter in Unity
SKU: RP-MAG28 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Ever fancied creating your own first-person shooter game? Now you can with this 140-page bookazine, brought to you by the Wireframe magazine team with tips from expert video game developers! Making a fast-paced 3D ...
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Code Club Book of Scratch - Volume 1
SKU: RP-MAG16 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
The first ever Code Club book is here! With it, you'll learn how to code using Scratch, the block-based programming language. In each chapter you’ll find instructions to build cool games, animations, an...
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Getting Started with Raspberry Pi - 4th
SKU: LB-GETTING-START-4 | Brand: Little Bird
A hands-on guide to getting up and running with the Raspberry Pi. This 4th edition covers everything from initial setup and configuration to programming, electronics projects, and multimedia applications — with step-b...
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Python Pocket Reference
SKU: PI-BK0305 | Brand: Pimoroni
This is the book to reach for when you're coding on the fly and need an answer now. Updated for both Python 3.4 and 2.7, this convenient pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job quick reference. You’ll find concise, ...
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