As Panasonic is no longer manufacturing their line of Sunceram solar cells, we've been on the hunt for suitable replacements. Here's our first find - the SCC3733! It's a polycrystaline cell in an epoxy casing, so it's a bit heavier, but much, much less prone to breaking or burning off of the solder-pads. It's also […]
Christmas/New Years Holiday Hours
Solar botics
December 1, 2017
This is a quick note to announce our holiday schedule, which is going to be as follows.
At Solarbotics:
- Friday, December 22 - Offices open til 4pm
- Monday, December 25 - Tuesday, December 26 -- Closed
- Wednesday, December 27 & Thursday, December 28 - Offices open 9am to 5pm
- Friday, December 29 - Offices open til 4pm
- Monday, January 1 - Closed
- Tuesday, January 2 - Open, back to regular hours
At ActiveTech Calgary:
- Friday, December 22 & Saturday, December 23 - Regular hours
- Monday, December 25 - Tuesday, December 26 -- Closed
- Wednesday, December 27 to Saturday, December 30 - Regular hours
- Monday, January 1 - Closed
- Tuesday, January 2 - Open, back to regular hours
Special holiday extended hours: open til 8pm every Thursday starting December 14th.
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BEAM as part of thesis work
Rory Nugent (of Solar Xylophone fame) has posted his thesis presentation to the Interactive Telecommunications Program, which heavily features BEAM devices. By "building things with a sense of life", he's documenting what we've known for a good while - autonomous devices ("pets") offer unusual interesting relationships. Keep up the good work!
New Gearmotor - the GM17
Hellooooo! I love getting new gearmotors to test. I get to break them apart, poke them, submit them to torture test - it's all great fun. My latest victim of inspection is our new GM17 HE Offset gearmotor. It uses a very power efficient 300-form factor motor to drive the 228:1 gearbox. It isn't a […]
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