Remember those bad-boy wheels you saw on Strongbad? Well, they're now available! But be warned - we don't have the sleeve to fix the 2mm shaft to 1/8" hole diameter gap, so you'll have to improvise something yourself. Otherwise, your robot will have a bit of a lope to its roll!
Friday New Product: LilyTwinkle, Teensy ...
Solar botics
April 11, 2014
It's Friday again, and it's been a busy (two) weeks since there was a new product. Wait no more, here it is.
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4-Conductor LED Strip Clamp $0.95 Reduce the crazy soldering mess with these super useful RGB LED strip clamps! |
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LilyTwinkle ATtiny85 $6.95 A preprogrammed controller board that can make your wearable project sparkle and shine. You can control up to 4 LED's with ease! |
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Adafruit Trinket - Mini Microcontroller - 3.3V Logic $7.95 Need an Arduino compatible board that's smaller than small? Look no further because the Trinket has got you covered. |
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Adafruit Trinket - Mini Microcontroller - 5V Logic $7.95 Need an Arduino compatible board that's smaller than small? Look no further because the Trinket has got you covered. |
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Teensy USB Board, Version 2.0 w/o Header Pins $16.00 This platform is like an Arduino but smaller... Oh and with almost twice the amount of digital I/O and more than double the amount of analog inputs. In short this platform is super cool! |
We also posted some (relatively) new laser videos (one and two), in case you have some lasers to play with.
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More interesting links on the inter-web....
Browsing around, I found another link regarding Mark Tilden & WowWee. From the website "AllNerdReview.com" (if that doesn't describe a roboticist...) comes article about a their visit to the New York Toy Fair (ok, so my web-browsing is a bit old). Enjoy... http://www.allnerdreview.com/TOYFAIR05/TF13.htm
More new stuff?
What's going on here? We haven't had this much new product come online so quickly since... since... well, let's just say "in quite a while!" Here's a book to add to your bookshelf: "Building Robot Drive Trains" by Clark & Owings. It's an excellent text on anything you need to know about putting power & […]
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