...oh, just save the Republic! Just got this note in from Rob Meyer, who is using 3 of our GM15 pager gearmotors to drive his 1/18 scale R2-D2. Given that the real R2-D2 measures 108cm tall, that makes this cute cousin only 6cm (2.36") tall! There's a GM15 for each of the drive wheels, and […]
Christmas Specials, new Webmaster, and s...
Dave Hrynkiw
November 27, 2000
HO HO HO ("HACK, cough, cough, sniiiiiffffff - aHEM"). Now that the winter holiday season is upon us (with associated illnesses...), it's time for us to finally unveil our annual Christmas sale!
This year's sale includes:
- SCXMas1 - Solarcell pack (2 each of the SC2422, SC2433, and SC3733) for $21 ($28 CDN)
- SCXMas2 - Solarcell pack (2 each of the SC2433, SC3733, and SC3766) for $29 ($38 CDN)
- CPXmas1 - Capacitor pack (2 each of the CP1000, CP3300, and CP4700) for $6 ($9 CDN)
- CP1.0F - Two Panasonic 1F 2.5V Gold capacitors for $8 ($10.50 CDN)
- CP0.33F - Two Panasonic 0.33F 2.5V Gold capacitors for $10 ($13 CDN)
We also have blow-out prices on BEAM/WCRG Millennium GamesMemorabilia. Only $5 ($6.50 CDN) for a full colour T-Shirt or Robotgames Rulebook!
Please also be welcoming Eric, our new web-master. He's a Electronics Engineering student at Devry here in Calgary, with a good head for this web-stuff and databases. With him on board, expect some changes in the next few months.
Sorry for the shortage on the SC2433 solarcells - they're now back in full stock.
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Circuit: Lightstorm
Some of you may have found the LightStorm Pummers that Mark Tilden has made using some neat looking plastics. We've built our own variation of the circuit, which is a dark-activated, quad-bicore pseudo-random chaos generated, dual pummer circuit.
BEP Application: Bare Bones PhotoVore
We like to have some play time at Solarbotics, and the "Bare Bones Photovore" is the results of one of these play sessions. It's a very simple (amongst the simplest, we'll hazard to say) light-seeking solar-powered robot, and find it easy to build using the Bicore Experimenter's PCB.
Wire and Cable Now Available at Solarbot...
An awesome catalog of wire for all of your project needs! We now have a good selection of stranded wire, solid wire, as well as multi conductor cable. If you have any wire requests that are not available online please reach out to support@solarbotics.com and we will see what we can do.
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