The Solarbotics Team will be taking Monday, January 1st 2007 off. We will be back bright and early Tuesday morning, and will ship any orders placed over the weekend then. We wish our customers, distributors and suppliers all the best in 2007!
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 one of our most popular kits is that a fraction of every Herbie sale goes towards a non-profit organization called KISS Institute for Practical Robotics. And while there are many witty jokes to be made about the acronym, Keep It Simple, Stupid is a philosophy that we hold very close to our hearts in the world of developing robots and electronic projects. But I digress.
Waaay back in 1993, David Miller and Cathryne Stein formed KISS as a way to expose young students all over the world to robotics, in an effort to encourage them to persue further education in computer science and engineering. A key component to this is the Botball, which "is an educational STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) outreach program in which teams of middle and high school aged students design, build, program, and document a pair of original autonomous robots to play in an open-solution tournament. All work is done by the students, and the equipment stays with the school to be reused for years in classroom or extracurricular activities."
Solarbotics is proud to contribute to this organization, and we encourage any of you interested to visit the site (posted above) for a lot more detail on how you can get involved in Botball's many activities and tournaments. There's so much more great information and media than we can pack into a humble newspost.
Now that we've had a KISS, how about some HUGS? Checkout this week's Handsome & Uniquely Glorious Stuff:
And that's it. If you were wondering what comes after KISS and HUGS, it's a NAFA followed by TSWOSTWHBREFE. You know, Not Another Fancy Acronym before The Second Weekend Of September That Will Hopefully Be Rather Enjoyable For Everyone.
The Solarbotics Team will be taking Monday, January 1st 2007 off. We will be back bright and early Tuesday morning, and will ship any orders placed over the weekend then. We wish our customers, distributors and suppliers all the best in 2007!
It's been a bit long in the coming, but it's finally here: The Sumovore PICAXE Brainboard for the Solarbotics Sumovore! One of the biggest tripping points we see from going from the pure digital/analog realm of BEAM to microcontrollers is learning the ins-and-outs of microcontrollers. The PICAXE nicely fills this void by offering a programming […]
IT IS NOW NOVEMBER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. STAY CALM. While a change in month is always an unsettling event, this one is particularly dreadful. Why exactly, we're not sure. But we have the feeling that if it was called 'Yesvember', things would be a lot more... Positive. So we're doing what we can […]
Well today we are presenting things! Here's how they work. GSM shield comes supplied with a sticker that you can draw a little arrow on it, and then you mount the shield on a stick, and it will show the direction of where you have to go. To set the direction whisper your exact latitude […]
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