Last summer during a Solarbotics Robotics for Educators session, one of the teachers noted something about many of the mainstream robotics and electronics learning platforms commonly used in classrooms. He said that those platforms suffered from the Black Box Effect. This effect was where the “black boxes,” the controllers, were plugged into the computer and […]
Friday New Product: Different Things and...
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August 2, 2013
Winter is not quite here yet. But close. It’s the second day of the last day of summer in 2013 today, according to the calendar at least. So lets prepare to that early by making sure all the new products are looked at. Now, how that makes sense? I am not sure. This was just to get your attention.
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Adafruit Assembled Data Logging shield for Arduino $19.95 The engineers at Adafruit have come up with a nice little datalogger shield, this time (mostly) assembled! |
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Arduino Robot Bonanza by Gordon McComb $32.95 Gordon McComb keeps churning out useful books, this time adapting his Robot Bonanza to use the Arduino. |
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Hacking Electronics: An Illustrated DIY Guide for Makers $33.95 Simon Monk writes another useful book about getting right into hacking electronics. Great for impatient builders! |
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JST RCY Male & Female 17cm Power Cable Set $1.00 Small and tidy, high power JST RCY / BEC battery plugs, 17cm (6.7") male/female set. |
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SLVR-1 Power Supply $15.00 It's a handy power-breakout, featuring barrel-jack input, and multiple 5V regulated, unregulated, and USB-compatible power taps. |
Oh, and one more thing, fellow civilians, or non-fellow civilians from other places. On Monday August 5th we are celebrating something plainly called Civic Holiday. Apparently all the other holidays are therefore deemed non-civic, except for this one. For that reason Solarbotics will be closed, and all the emails, phone messages and orders will receive all the due attention they need the next day.
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