Canada Day Holiday

We're adding more and more from our Active Tech Calgary store lineup to our website. This week, NTE's line of head-shrink tubing, and Hammond Enclosures. This reflects what we have presently on hand in the store, which we're now able to bring to you via the website! We realize that with the new dataload our […]

Lets contabulate! And that means, as I recently learned, to cover with boards, which in our case are - breadboards. Today's breadboard coverage is only partial, as we have other stuff to show off too: Synapse "Getting Started" Transmitter Bundle $49.99 Add a Wii Nunchuck and battery to this bundle and you'll have a simple […]

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 […]

Sensors. They're FUN. So fun, in fact, we just added a metric crap-tonne (a completely legitimate scientific unit of measurement) of them to Solarbotics. What, you don't believe me? CHECK THIS ACTION OUT! We just added 4 categories, and we now have a total of 75 items available. Here's the full rundown of new stuff: […]