This mini-sumo design by Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin features our wheels, and one of our favourite building materials, Sintra. We can't laser-cut sintra (PVC=bad stuff when burned), but milling it works well, as this builder shows. The asymmetric motor layout works, as proven by this contest-winning design (scroll to the bottom of the page).
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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Annual Solarbotics BBQ RSVP
Hi all. It's coming up time for the annual Western Canadian Robot Games on May 13th, and as per usual, Solarbotics will be hosting our post-event wind-down. Interested in coming? Let us know here!
WIRED.COM and BIOBugs
Wired.com recently posted a very interesting comparison between the Wowwee/Hasbro BIO-Bugs, and the Sony Aibo. Interesting comparison! For those wanting more information, there's the BIO-Bug vivisection page at Solarbotics.net.
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