Maker and STEM Reviews

Adafruit’s Trinkey QT2040 sees the RP2040 SoC dropped into a USB key shaped microcontroller.

The Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect sees the Arduino and Raspberry Pi come together to provide a microcontroller with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Adafruit’s latest RP2040 board is “the middle child” of an excellent range of boards. Luckily it isn’t a problem child.

Adafruit’s smallest RP2040 board may lack GPIO pins but it brings plenty of power and flexibility to your projects.

An all-in-one kit that provides a great hardware platform to build IoT devices using the Arduino IoT Cloud.

Robo Wunderkind is a STEM-based robotics kit consisting of different modules and sensors aimed at teaching kids how to create their own robots and learn the basics of coding.

An all in one electronics lab that can be used with Windows, Mac, Linux and Raspberry Pi, the Grove Beginner Kit is easy to use and with great documentation.

A different kind of Jedi mind trick.

DJI RoboMaster S1 is one of the most premium, high-end STEM robots we’ve seen. But younger kids will need adult assistance.

Sphero Bolt is a STEM toy robot that teaches programming by block-based coding or JavaScript. Its Sphero Edu app is helpful but works better in the classroom.