Solarbotics Blog Posts & News

New Years 2007

Dave Hrynkiw
December 28, 2006
The Solarbotics Team will be taking Monday, January 1st 2007 off. We will be back bright and early Tuesday morning, and will ship any orders placed over the weekend then. We wish our customers, distributors and suppliers all the best in 2007!

Interesting BEAM Site

Dave Hrynkiw
December 19, 2006
My weekly web-crawler popped up with this interesting link not long ago. Nicely put together, nice photos, nice group of 'bots! Simon Fraser's Robots

Herbie Reviewed

Dave Hrynkiw
December 18, 2006
Here's a link from Gareth Branwyn at Streettech for his review of our new Herbie the Mousebot Kit!

New SCC3733a-MSE Solarcell

Dave Hrynkiw
December 12, 2006
What's so special about the new SCC3733a-MSE? Two things: It's machine-assembled with new high-quality Russian solar cells (the best commercial cells we've tested yet) It comes with a Miller Solarengine circuit pre-etched on the rear of the solarcell! We have only a limited number of these cells presently, so if you're looking for the absolutely […]

Holiday Shipping

Dave Hrynkiw
December 11, 2006
Another year has snuck by, and here we are on the cusp of another winter holiday season! If you want to give a Solarbotics Kit (and we hope you do...) to somebody special this year, you should be aware of our shipping deadlines. It's not recommended to use ground shipping now (which can take up […]

We've been BoingBoing'd!

Dave Hrynkiw
November 30, 2006
Thanks to Gareth Branwyn and his 2006 Holiday Gift Guide on Street Tech our new "Herbie the Mousebot" is featured on BoingBoing. For those who don't know BoingBoing is "A Directory of Wonderful Things."

Herbie the Mousebot and Photopopper 5.0 ...

Dave Hrynkiw
November 28, 2006
After another marathon documentation-writing session, we're proud to announce that both "Herbie the Mousebot" and the "Photopopper 5.0" are in full production! Just in time for Christmas!

Holiday Specials!

Dave Hrynkiw
November 15, 2006
Yes, we're approaching the time of the year when it's the darkest and all you want to do is sip tea and huddle around the ... soldering iron! The first of our specials is the "KHSB1 - Learn Robotics Book Special". It includes a copy of our popular "Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels", plus […]

New TINY Pogo Pin Probes

Dave Hrynkiw
November 8, 2006
We had some requests for some really, really small Pogo Push Pin Probes (Hmmm...shoulda named them PPPPs...). Anyway, here's the PP8s and the PPH2, which are the "short" version of the PP8 and the necessary holder to mount them. If you have really tight spaces you need to test, these are the probes you'll need!

Christmas Bundles!

Dave Hrynkiw
November 7, 2006
My marketing team has been throwing (ouch!) erasers at me (ouch!)until I get this put online: Not sure if you should build or read this winter season? Combine the two! Get the "Junkbots" book and a HexPummer, Pendulum, or SolarSpeeder kit at a combined price that saves you money! (See below in "Featured Items")
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