Solarbotics will be closed for the July 1st Canada Day celebrations. We gotta let our people have fun some of the time...
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.
Solarbotics will be closed for the July 1st Canada Day celebrations. We gotta let our people have fun some of the time...
For Fridays, it's either all or nothing - so today is an all day, with all kinds of exciting new things, including Raspberry Pi Version 2 & accessories, PCBGrip and Hakko soldering irons
We were pleased to see the Kickstarter for Ringo, the Photopopper-ish but much smarter version of our own ~17 year old design robot kit. The video showcases some pretty cool behaviors, and is easily one of those projects where we think "Jee, why didn't we do that?"
Here's our late and lame Friday post. It features one very lonely, depressed, and forgotten product from a week ago. But it blinks, so it can't be that sad, right? 5V RGB LED LPD8806 Stripxels (32 per meter) $35.00 These are very similar to the WS2801 RGB Stripxel, but feature the LPD8806 controller IC instead. […]
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