Unlike Sparkfun, who actually manage to find fake Atmel ICs, we just get strange batches. The Atmel ATMega328 is the power behind the Arduino/Freeduino/*duino, and we have to set up a programming system to burn the venerable Arduino Bootloader into these chips. We normally use an AVR STK500 in HVSP (high voltage serial programming) mode, […]
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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WCRG Coming quickly!
The Western Canadian Robot Games is quickly approaching! May 10 & 11; SAIT Heart Building. Solarbotics will be there again, sponsoring (among other things) our own SolarSpeeder race. Aim your solarspeeder through a 4" gap in a wall 8 feet away, and win a ScoutWalker II kit! No registration required - just come on down […]
Looking for additions to our own IT Crow...
(Thanks for the interest - welcome Chris to the team!) Our IT task at Solarbotics have grown beyond "Did you try turning it off and then on again?", so we're in the hiring market for an IT Guru & website manager. Please, we're only interested in applicants that can work here, in Calgary, Alberta. Sorry, […]
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