Solarbotics Blog Posts & News
Yaaaarrr! Solarbotics successfully board...
Dave Hrynkiw
April 1, 2007
Ummm, yup! Here's an April Fool's joke for you - that April Fool's wasn't a joke! Solarbotics has indeed taken over the operations of HVWTech.com! The owner of HVWTech has new priorities in his life (about 1 year old, drooling, and crawling around on the floor), and decided to hand off operations to us. We're […]
Solarbotics boards HVWTech!
Dave Hrynkiw
April 1, 2007
Yes, it's true. After years of working our fingers to the bone inserting jumper wires on breadboards to make unusually robust controllers for robots out of discrete & logic chip elements, Solarbotics has seen the light! We've put on our eye-patch, hoisted the jolly-roger, and swung along-side to board the HMS HVWTech.com ! That's right […]
New Solar cell - SCC2433b-MSE
Dave Hrynkiw
March 30, 2007
These SCC2433b-MSE solar cells with the Miller Engine circuit on the back make it real easy to build a pulsing power source for your projects. These cells aren't quite as powerful as the SCC3733-MSE, but they're no slouches either! Check them out below!
New custom bug...
Dave Hrynkiw
March 14, 2007
Here's a link Harold just sent me of his micro-ScoutWalker3. Gotta say, I haven't seen workmanship this tidy in a long time. Nice job...
GM19 Gearmotors in action!
Dave Hrynkiw
March 8, 2007
We've had a great email come in from "Team Wazio", who are using our GM19 gear motors in their ant/fairyweight battlebots. Neat construction details - worth a look-see! (Yes, we know they're using the RW2 wheels and we're sold out, but we're taking care of that...)
Closed Monday the 19th
Dave Hrynkiw
February 19, 2007
President's Day / Family day - whatever you want to call it, we're enjoying it outside in the sunshine! See you tomorrow, we promise!
GM Motors used in humanoid arm
Dave Hrynkiw
February 6, 2007
Here's a link to a neat project featuring our GM gear motors in several spots in a humanoid arm mechanism. Very cool! Read More...
Scheduled Website downtime
Dave Hrynkiw
January 19, 2007
I suppose the Internet tubes need cleaning once in a while... Our ISP is scheduling some downtime for upgrades on January 27, 09:00-12:00 UTC (that's 2am to 5am Mountain time here where Solarbotics is). Sorry for the hiccup!
Latest from our Favourite BEAM Roboticis...
Dave Hrynkiw
January 8, 2007
Wondering what Mark Tilden and his crew at Wow-Wee have been up to lately? Thanks to Engadget and the BEAM-mailing list, we can see what they've released at the latest "Consumer Electronics Show" (CES), here on this page and this page. Love the Elvis head... just gotta drop that chip into the monkey head they […]
Website maintenance
Dave Hrynkiw
January 4, 2007
So, didja all have a good Holiday Break? Yeah, we did too. Need a vacation to recover from the vacation... Enough chit-chat: Just a quick note to let you know we're expecting a bit of an outage January 6th at 2am MST (that's -7GMT, I think). Our server is being affected by an upstream upgrade […]
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