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Are you training / working out with a punchbag?  If so, here's a simple way to use IoT to track and record how well you are doing. We have taped a BBC micro:bit with the XK05 micro:bit kit to the...

We are very excited to announce our latest research mission, made possible by the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), to gather data at the SANEA IV base in Antartica from an XinaBox environmental monitoring kit. The data collected is...

With a flurry of excitement NASA TV announced those 3 little words we've been waiting so long to hear: "we've got capture". XinaBox had finally arrived at the ISS! A robotic arm from the ISS captures a resupply vessel On...

Today is a very exciting, but anxious, day for XinaBox in South Africa in our partnership with Quest For Space... The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying our kit to the International Space Station (ISS) finally launched from Wallops Island, USA,...

Sunday night in South Africa and we were waiting with great excitement, watching the build up to the launch of a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from Wallops Island, USA.  Included in the payload: XinaBox hardware, bound for the International Space...

Its official!  Our data science / IoT / AI curriculum kicks off next week with pilots on 2 continents. We've been developing this with Microsoft for months and the response from participating schools has been overwhelmingly positive. There are still...

Choose the functionality you need from our range of 80+ xChips, click them together, and flash some code - all done in minutes. You can build a scientific measurement tool, Internet of Things smart device for home automation, or even a...

Cape Town-based Xinabox R&D, a developer of modular electronics and IoT kits for rapid prototyping and STEM education, is partnering with U.S-based Quest for Space to launch experiments to the International Space Station (ISS). The XinaBox experiment alongside 17 other...

We started off 2019 by dispatching our latest set of kits to support Virginia Space’s STEM programme - that’s for the science projects and ThinSats thousands of school and college students will be building in 2020! See more later on XinaBox in Space!...

XinaBox are proud and excited to announce the launch of two great kits for the BBC micro:bit: The XK05 IoT kit for micro:bit The XK04 STEM kit for micro:bit. Our range of over 80 components (called 'xChips') has been around...

XinaBox, producer of an innovative educational technology ecosystem, today launched revolutionary functionality for the BBC micro:bit, bringing easy IoT and SD card based data logging capabilities to a community of over 4 million learners. BBC micro:bits are utilized in educational...