Herbie the Mousebot, that lovable robotic rodent of ours, is a pretty popular critter. Seeks light, avoids obstacles, chases other Herbies (when modified), and is generally a swell robo mus musculus. He doesn't whistle and can't quite drive a steamboat like certain other mice, but he's gets by alright. What most people probably don't know about […]
Friday New Product: Teensy, Ribbon Cable...
Solar botics
June 5, 2015
Today is Friday, and we are announcing a range of parts that might be helpful in your projects:
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Teensy-LC USB Development Board $11.65 Teensy-LC delivers an impressive collection of capabilities to make modern electronic projects simpler. |
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Infrared Receiver 2.5-5.5V 38kHz $1.40 Compact IR Receiver for sensor applications. |
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2xAAA Battery Holder with Cover and Switch $1.50 For those of you building smaller devices, you may appreciate a holder for a pair of AAA batteries. |
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Lead-free Solder Spool (100g) $6.50 Solder, without lead! |
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Raspberry Pi - GPIO Extension Ribbon Cable (15cm) $2.95 Extend those Pi I/O lines up to 15cm (6") away. |
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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
Looking for additions to our own IT Crow...
(Thanks for the interest - welcome Chris to the team!) Our IT task at Solarbotics have grown beyond "Did you try turning it off and then on again?", so we're in the hiring market for an IT Guru & website manager. Please, we're only interested in applicants that can work here, in Calgary, Alberta. Sorry, […]
Sausage Roll for Sale!
Here at Solarbotics, we like to eat well. So, unfortunately after leaving a forgotten sausage roll in the microwave for several days we must search for a means of disposal and/or obvious prank to pull. Our immediate reaction was to place the rather stale pastry in the mouth of our office chimp, Herb. But now […]
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