Closed for St. X-Men Day

This Thursday (October 18) is the inaugural meeting of the Western Canadian Robot Society, Room MD213 7PM at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). We're hoping to revive the interest in the local robot scene, as Calgary already has one of the biggest robot games in the world, and it's a killer center of […]

We've been having fun playing with the L293D driver chip. It's one of those things to see how much you can make it do by itself (like with any BEAM application!). Grant McKee has been experimenting with some simple additions to the chip to make it (unto itself) a suitable brain for a simple mini-sumo […]

If you'll recall correctly, in last week's news post I said something along the lines of "Keep an eye out for new PICAXE bundles in the coming week." But I was quickly bound and gagged by a pack of vicious lawn gnomes (packing lawn gnome-sized guns, no less), preventing me from fulfilling the promise.  So […]

Well it looks like that time of year when snow's in the air and we are out of the office for those precious holiday-tastic days.  Over the next two weeks(ish) Solarbotics/HVWTech will be closed on the following dates: December 24th (Wednesday) December 25th (Thursday) December 26th (Friday) January 1st (Thursday) January 2nd (Friday) During this […]