The New Raspberry Pi 3+

The Raspberry Pi 3+ is the most powerful version of this single board computer released to date. With a 1.4GHz Quad Core Processor, 1GB of RAM, and built in Dual Band WiFi - What will you do with it?

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Google AIY Starter Kits are now available!

The Google AIY Voice Kit for Raspberry Pi allows you to add do-it-yourself artificial intelligence to your maker projects. This kit, when completed, will give directions, send a hands free email, check the weather, and more!

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The BBC Micro:bit has arrived in Canada!

The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer designed for beginners in electronics and coding. The micro:bit makes getting into these often daunting fields as easy as possible.

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16 Aug 2018

Raspberry Pi Weather Station Tutorial – Part 3

Part three of our Raspberry Pi Weather Station Tutorial is now up! In this section of our tutorial we are going to figure out how to log our weather station’s data and display it on live updating graphs using a free web-based data service called ThingSpeak. Interested? Head on over to Part 3 of the tutorial!

11 Aug 2018

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New Product Roundup – August 5th to August 11th

It’s another Saturday and with that we have another New Product Roundup and another new Product Of The Week! Product of the week is our USB Microscope at 15% Off – these are perfect for inspecting circuit boards without straining your eyes! New to the store, we have an Infrared Proximity Switch, a 3.3V Zener Diode to keep your 3.3V logic circuits safe, and another style of mini-grabber cable. Lets jump in and take a look at each!

04 Aug 2018

by Chris @ BCR

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New Product Roundup – July 29th to August 4th

Hello everyone and thank you for joining us for this holiday weekend edition of our Saturday New Product Roundup. This week we have four new products to showcase and a very practical Product Of The Week. New to the shop, we have the SparkFun Third Hand Kit, a new Continuous Rotation Servo, a new version of our Arduino Experiment Kit, and a No-Clean Flux Pen from Chip Quick. Our product of the week is the Extra Large Solderless Breadboard. Let’s take a look at each!

31 Jul 2018

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B.C. Day Long Weekend

The BC Day holiday long weekend is coming up! Just a quick reminder: we will be closed Monday August 6th for the provincial holiday. All orders placed after 4:00 PM on Friday August 3rd will ship out on Tuesday August 7th.

Our showroom will be open normal hours on Saturday August 4th ( 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM ) for all your holiday weekend project needs!

28 Jul 2018

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New Product Roundup – July 22nd to July 28th

Welcome to another Saturday New Product Roundup! This week we have added a couple new products and tracked down an old favorite! Also, we pushed through a bunch more updates to the website, so hopefully the product pages are looking a lot better for all of our mobile users (if not, we suggest clearing your browser cache!)
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