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Black Friday Sale 2024

Shop Our Biggest Sale of the Year! Black Friday is running from November 28th through December 6th!    Use the code BF2024 at checkout to save 25%!  * Offer excludes clearance items and already reduced bundles. Available to retail customers only. Products available while supplies last. Not good on prior purchases. No rainchecks. 

Purdue’s 2024 Engineering Gift Guide Features Chibitronics

Love to Code Creative Coding Kit in Top 10 Reviewed Gifts for 2024 The Chibitronics Love to Code Creative Coding Kit is a great holiday gift idea! Inspiring children and teens through the wonder of play Purdue University’s 2024 Engineering Gift Guide This year our engaging microcontroller kit was reviewed and selected as one of […]

NEW Products Make Chibitronics More Economical, Convenient, & Easy to Use!

Convenient. Easy. Chibi. We are excited to announce that our newest line of conductive products are more economical, convenient, and easy to use than ever! Developed with input from consumers who’ve been using our products for nearly a decade, we believe you’ll appreciate the lower prices, the freshest additions, and the remarkable improvements we’ve made […]

Pop-Up Headless Horseman Card with Chibitronics LED Stickers

Hi! This is Kathy Ceceri and today I’m sharing the card I created for the LightUpPopUpTober challenge. My word was “attach,” and the design I came up with had the Headless Horseman attaching his pumpkin head to wish you a Happy Halloween. It took a lot of work to get the moving pop-up design and […]

Spooky, Tilt-Sensing Tunnel Book with Chibitronics LEDs

View Video In this video tutorial, I’ll show you a way to create a Halloween-themed, octagon-shaped, illuminated tunnel book that turns on and off with help from a tilt sensor. You will find the complete supply list, downloadable cut files, and printable circuit diagrams below. A traditional tilt-sensor is a small cylinder wrapped around two […]

Guest Post: How to Make a Light-Up Pop-Up Birthday Card

Guest Post: Krafti Karma Today’s video tutorial was created by an enterprising young crafter, Taryn, who creates under the moniker Krafti Karma. Based in Northern California, Taryn is a high school sophomore who enjoys traveling, volunteering for the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, and teaching kids at Peninsula Bridge. A recipient of a […]

PopUpTober: Light-up, Slot & Joint Mechanism (featuring Chibitronics)

Slot & Joint Video Tutorial: Introduction: In this video tutorial for #PopUpTober, I’ll show you two different methods for building a light-up pop-up mechanism called a Slot and Joint.  A Slot and Joint mechanism is useful for creating pop-ups that appear to jut out from a parallelogram adhered to a base card. This type of […]

Meet the Maker: Ryan Jenkins

Tinker Extraordinaire This month, we are excited to introduce you to a brilliant educator and author, Ryan Jenkins, the cofounder of Wonderful Idea Co., a design studio focusing on STEAM education. The time was right to feature Ryan, because he has a brand new book coming out this October, The Tinkering Workshop! A colorful chapter […]

PopUpTober: Light-Up Floating Plane Pop-Up Mechanism Featuring Chibitronics

Video Tutorial Introduction: In this video tutorial for #PopUpTober, I’ll show you two different methods for building a light-up pop-up structure called a Floating Plane.  A Floating Plane is useful for creating large pop-up shapes that appear to float upon a flat plane that rests upon three parallel supports. A Floating Plane may be folded […]

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