We've finally come upon a suitable replacment for the venerable, discontinued VPM vibrating pager disk motor. Ah, it was a splendid device, but it sure was easy to break those motor leads... Ah! But the new VPM2 has wires prebonded to the motor, and it's slightly smaller too! We welcome our new vibrating disk motor […]
MakeFashion Tech Gala Photos
Solar botics
March 31, 2015
Solarbotics just attended the MakeFashion Gala here in Calgary. It was a glowing show of glowing lights and wearable technology. Check out the photos in our Flickr stream.
Photo courtesy George Dimitrov Photography
Among all the other wonderful things we've seen using our string LEDs before, there was nothing quite as intense as these outfits. Olga Sem, Kat Leto and Marina Ortman did an amazing job of incorporating them into the costumes.
Look at this density! Part of the Joker outfit, photo courtesy Kat Leto.
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Circuit: Herbie by Randy Sargent
Although not a true BEAM robot, this simple schematic by Randy Sargent is small, simple, slick, and effective. My own version uses a pair of pager motors and three cells from a 9V rechargeable battery. Hard to get any simpler than this device!
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