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Explore The Building Blocks Of Technology

Piper Make blends buildable hardware with easy-to-understand coding lessons to create an easy introduction to physical computing! Combine Piper’s block coding platform with a wide range of physical circuits with the Raspberry Pi Pico-based Piper Make Base Station - available for only £78.57 (ex VAT)

Piper Make Base Station

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The Piper Make Base Station Kit is the starter kit for all Piper Make products.

Its Raspberry Pi microcontroller, as well as LED lights, switches and much more, allow you to explore more than 10 self-guided Missions and learn about computational thinking, basic circuitry, coding and so much more.

Follow the brand new Piper Make Base Station Curriculum for a full sequence of lessons to be used in your STE(A)M classroom.

Programme, Play and Learn

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Self guided Mission tutorials and an award winning Blockly drag-and-drop platform are available for free on make.playpiper.com.

Piperbot and Pip, the loveable adventurers at the centre of the storyline, guide and engage students to create technology and learn key STE(A)M skills!

See the learning platform here!
Screenshot of the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller programming interface with a code block that turns pin 14 on, waits 1 second, turns pin 14 off, waits 0.5 seconds, repeating in a loop. The interface shows the Raspberry Pi Pico board, a wiring diagram for LED wiring, and menu options on the left for programming blocks.
Digital space-themed game interface with cartoon characters, a robot and a dog, on planets and stars, featuring mission buttons for start, blink, and other game options.
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Extend

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Widgets may be added on to the Starter Kit to extend the Piper Make experience, connecting to expand the cross-curricular potential of your computing lessons.

Guide learners through STE(A)M content around clean energy, bio-med, game design, robotics and more!

Learn more about Widgets here
Person assembling a robotic dog using electronic components and wires.

Explore endless STE(A)M possibilities with Piper Make Widgets!

A small wooden robot with a face made of electronic components, featuring two large speaker-like eyes, sitting on a white surface with a microcontroller and colored wires on top.
A wooden visual programming device with colorful buttons and connected wires, against a white background with a red shape.
Electronic components including a blue temperature sensor, a blue relay module, a small circuit board with a fan, and two yellow and black wires on a red background.
Wooden electronic game controller with circuit connections and labeled buttons, placed on a green background.
A wooden mechanical puzzle with the word 'PIPER' on it, connected to multicolored wires, placed on a red heart shape background.
A wooden maze puzzle with black elastic bands and a multicolored wire on a yellow background.

Piper Make Base Station )(£78.57)

A small wooden model house with electronic components inside, placed on a green background.
A model train track with electronic components on an abstract yellow background.
Small robotic car with two wheels, sensors, and electronic components on a blue background
A soil sensor submerged in water inside a clear glass, with two alligator clips attached to a wooden stick labeled soil sensor, against a green abstract background.
A small robotic helicopter with wooden parts, dual sensors front, and colorful wiring, set against a blue abstract background.
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Sensor Explorer

(£46.83 ex VAT)

As you meet new characters with Piperbot and Pip in our storyline (including some new Zomar friends and an enigmatic Color Wheel), you’ll learn how you can use sensors to measure color, distance, and temperature in the world around you.

Piper Sensor Explorer

Electronics components including a blue sensor, a blue circuit board with twin speakers, and several connecting cables with white connectors on a red background.

Pulse

(£46.83 ex VAT)

Ever had your heart rate measured at the doctor’s? With Piper Make Pulse, you’ll build your own. As you help Pip and Dr. Lizard power Piperbot up in our narrative based on planet Trezed, you’ll learn how your heart pumps blood throughout your body – a foundational biomedical concept.

Wooden mechanical puzzle with the word 'PIPER' and colorful wires against a red abstract shape background.

Piper Make Pulse

Beam Break

(£70.63 ex VAT)

It's a race between Piperbot and Pip: Who will win? 

Using infrared sensors to detect when your car “breaks the beam” while racing down a track, users will learn the basics of using sensors in the physical world and doing calculations in code – all while racing to the finish!

A bright orange, elongated electronic device with various electronic parts attached, set on a white background with a yellow abstract shape behind it.

Piper Make Beam Break

Light Show

(£54.76 ex VAT)

Create your own scrolling messages and send them along to friends or create brilliant art with lights! With Light Show, use your creativity and flair to design with technology and light. Explore game design by programming LED lights to mimic the game Tetris.

Piper Make Light Show

Electronic pixel game panel with colorful labeled buttons on a wooden board and wiring, placed on a red and white background.

Motion Ball

(£46.83 ex VAT)

Build and code your own gyroscopic ball and toss it around to play Marsball with Piperbot and Pip!

As you learn to play Marsball with Piperbot you’ll learn how spin can relate to speed – an incredibly valuable kinetics lesson for not only our future physicists!

A wooden maze puzzle with black elastic bands and a multicolored wire, set against a yellow background.

Piper Make Motion Ball

Solar House

(£54.76 ex VAT)

It's more important than ever to understand how we can harness energy from the world around us in environmentally-conscious ways. With a solar panel atop the roof, you'll build circuits to understand how to save solar energy, simulate the sun with your own flashlight, and use it to light up your house.

A small wooden model house with electronic components inside, on a green surface.

Piper Make Solar House

Game Controller

(£46.83 ex VAT)

There’s no better way to engage the gaming enthusiast in your life with the love of STEM learning, from building and coding your controller yourself to playing through the incredible educational content of Minecraft Education Edition.

Piper Make Game Controller

Wooden musical game controller with labeled buttons and wires, on a green background.

Robotic Walker

(£54.76 ex VAT)

Designed to inspire creativity and critical thinking about robotic design and inspiration, the Walker will get users thinking about how robots move in space and how to use sensors to detect space.

You’ll learn how sequential angle changes can let your robot walk, dance, and detect obstacles to stop – a must-have for future technologists out there!

Piper Make Walker

A wooden robotic helicopter with electronic components and colorful wires, set against a blue background.
Robotic vehicle with two wheels, electronic sensors, and wires, assembled with a wooden and plastic frame on a blue background.

Robotic Rover

(£54.76 ex VAT)

Build your own Rover and code Piperbot and Pip's escape from the angry Zomars!

As you help Piperbot and Pip escape an angry crowd of Zomars, you’ll learn the relationship between rotation and linear speed and steer using the ultrasonic range finder – important learning points for any self-driving car enthusiasts!

Piper Make Rover

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Soil Sensor

(£38.89 ex VAT)

Smart Farming is the newest technology found across the world to help build a more sustainable world. Explore the Soil Sensor experiencing how farmers are using technology to build a more efficient farm and agricultural techniques.

A glass of water with soil pH sensor probe submerged, connected to yellow and green wires, with a green abstract background.

Piper Make Soil Sensor