Grant has taken some time to document how to turn a standard 81:1 GM10 pager gear motor and turn it into a 9:1 version. Why would you want to do that? You tell me - I'd love to know what project you build with a speed demon like that! Read More...
Labour Day. Do be honest, I don't even know what the big deal is. I mean, most of society does it (labourizing) for a living. What's the big deal? Apparently we need to celebrate it. That's right, rejoice about that thing that we do practically every day. And the way we celebrate it, go figure, is to spend a day not doing the thing we're so excited about. Actually, to quote a source that's more knowledgeable than yours truly (ie, Wikipedia), Labour Day is "an annual holiday to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers." You know, for establishing things like 8 hour working days. So Solarbotics and HVW Tech will be closed on Monday, September the 5th while we work a full 0 hour day. We'll be slaving away over such things as not work, so that when we reopen on Tuesday the 6th we can resume shipping orders and answering all the correspondence you can throw at us.
In other news, do you remember Matt's Pummer Flower video from last week? If you thought it was as cool as we did and want to build your own, he has now finished his Instructables project. If you're looking for a project to tackle over the long weekend, we suggest you go check it out.
In other news, we have a brief announcement from Yana, a wonderful coworker that handles a huge chunk of the content management and graphic design. She determined that the best way to get across some Netduino news was via an archeological-themed post. This is what she proposed we say:
"Rare as petrified sauropod vertebrae and beautiful as an aquatic salamander, the NetduinoPlus is back (in stock), as powerful and versatile as ever! Even fortune-telling using ground-up archaeological marvels will not tell us why these microcontroller artifacts are so rare, but it doesn't change the fact that here they are. Catch one (or two) while you can."
Now, unfortunately for Yana, at the age where most children were smitten with dinosaurs and critters and exploring for ancient ruins, I was smitten with a rather alarming fixation on Star Wars and its expanded universe. Still, I'll do the best I can to introduce this week's set of new items in an archeological approach.
/Clears throat
Hey man, did you hear about all those new items we got in from SparkFun? They're as awesome as all those bones they found. You know, the ones that were in the ground. Covered in old dirt and stuff. Unlike new items which are shiny and awesome, those old bones were... old. Like, really old. And they used to belong to some dinosaurs or prehistoric people. You know, like some homo erectus. They died a long time ago. From boredom, because they didn't have this SparkFun stuff to help them make their primitive tools used for hunting... Cantaloupe Antelope. And... Mammoth Bison Velociraptors. They probably hunted in packs and traveled single file. You know, to hide their numbers. But they weren't very precise with their blaster fire. As compared to, say, Imperial Stormtroopers.
/Cough
Wait, I can salvage this. Tuskan Raiders were framed by Imperial Stormtroopers, who commuted all the way from the Death Star, which fired lasers. And what do we have this week from SparkFun? Laser modules.
BAM! ON WITH THE SHOW!
So there we go. A brief exploration of Labour Day, an Instructables project, the Netduino back in stock via an archeological approach, and a failed (and rescued) analogy that lead into SparkFun goodies. What more could you want? What's that, a weekend? Fine, but just this once though.
Grant has taken some time to document how to turn a standard 81:1 GM10 pager gear motor and turn it into a 9:1 version. Why would you want to do that? You tell me - I'd love to know what project you build with a speed demon like that! Read More...
We know this isn't a big deal to average-joe Solarbotics customer, but we are thrilled to have a new website platform up and running for almost a month now. We've still digging through what plugins work and could be improved, so please continue being patient with us. We are posting more holiday sale items, and […]
It takes a while to get to know all the quirks of your 3D printer and filament well. We thought we'd add to the knowledge base and share what we've learned about using the eSun 1.75mm PLA filament in Glass Watermelon Red on our Kossel Pro delta style 3D printer.
We laser lots of wood and acrylic... like seriously, it's hundreds if not thousands of sheets per year. This volume of throughput tends to cause the lasers to build up a lot of gunk and debris that needs to be cleaned on a regular basis. Besides being safer, it reduces the "flash" marks which are […]
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