We like to have some play time at Solarbotics, and the "Bare Bones Photovore" is the results of one of these play sessions. It's a very simple (amongst the simplest, we'll hazard to say) light-seeking solar-powered robot, and find it easy to build using the Bicore Experimenter's PCB.
Friday New Product: Toolbag, Digital San...
Solar botics
October 10, 2014
Today we have some fun stuff to play with, mainly Sandbox and Trinket, and their accessories:
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Sparkfun Tool Bag Kit $34.95 A portable tool bag that includes everything to get you started. |
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Sparkfun Digital Sandbox $74.95 The Digital Sandbox makes learning how to program microcontrollers a snap! Walk through 13 unique and interesting experiments with drag and drop programming and no soldering required. |
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Sparkfun Digital Sandbox Add-On $14.95 Add 3 more awesome experiments to the Digital Sandbox Learning platform! |
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Adafruit Pro Trinket LiIon/LiPoly Backpack Add-onn $4.95 Charge and power your Pro Trinket with this LiIon/LiPoly Backpack Add-on board by Adafruit. |
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PowerBoost 1000 Basic - 5V USB Boost @ 1000mA from 1.8V+ $14.95 This 4A capable PowerBoost 1000 can turn almost any battery voltage below 5.5V into a steady 5.2V to power your USB devices. |
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Shok Circuits
Here's a little something from Grant in the development lab - a very simple pair of circuits based on Mark Tilden's Bicore Shok architecture. This circuit makes for a very simple, effective Photovore robots, or even a photo-head. Take a look - schematics & parts listed included! We've also added a gallery entry for these […]
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