This is a quick note to announce our holiday schedule, which is going to be as follows. At Solarbotics: Friday, December 22 - Offices open til 4pm Monday, December 25 - Tuesday, December 26 -- Closed Wednesday, December 27 & Thursday, December 28 - Offices open 9am to 5pm Friday, December 29 - Offices open til 4pm Monday, January 1 - […]
GM10 Wheels
Dave Hrynkiw
June 14, 2004
These motors are simply too cool not to have wheels for, and although you can screw on a wheel to the existing motor output arms, these GM10 wheels are much more convenient.
We built a micro-sumo robot ("MicroVore" - yeah, we know it means "micro-eater") for the PDXBot competition last week, and came in third place! As it was running on ~7 volts, it was a tad squirrely, but BOY was it quick with plenty of torque!
If you're looking to build light, palm-sized wheeled robots, here's your solution!
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Solarbotics Ltd. is now a distributor of Sherline Machine Tool Products , and to inaugurate this arrangement, Solarbotics and Sherline are teaming up to bring a 5400 Mill package to the Western Canadian Robot Games for fundraising! We're providing the WCRG with this excellent high-quality mill ($921 CDN / $650 USD Retail) to use as […]
More about website development
A decent website is a core of a web-centric store like ours. Back in the early days, I hand-coded HTML (yeah, go back to waybackmachine to admire that work), and what you got is what you got. Since then, we rebuilt Solarbotics.com through 3 more iterations of totally refactored hand-coded platforms, and then 2 aborted […]
Summertime Sale
Ah, the Summer Solstice... We thought it'd be a nice way to celebrate the passing of the longest day of the year with some permanent price adjustments and some special deals! Sale items: The always-popular PhotoPopper Photovore kit (regularly $60USD) is now $45USD! The GM10W Deal motor/wheel combination (regularly $11.39USD) is now $8.95USD a set! […]
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