I missed the full segment of this story last weeks on "Discovery Channel's @discovery.ca" program, but fortunately, the've put the segment online at their website. I seems that JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories - NASA essentially) is working on a solar-powered, single-footed robot frog. This seems like a GREAT idea for extra-terrestrial planet-surface locomotion. Check out […]
New Products: EggBot Pro, Batteries, Ras...
Solar botics
April 2, 2015
We are closed tomorrow April 3 for Good Friday, so we are bringing you the new product reveal early:
Today we are happy to announce the addition to the EggBot family - the fully assembled Egg-Bot PRO! We have a few other odds and ends worth checking out, so have a look. There is Pololu Gyro, a couple of e-textile batteries and a handy Raspberry Pi SAFE that we designed to fit the Pi V2 and B+ models.
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Evil Mad Science EggBot Pro $390.00 Compact and easy to use with a variety of spherical and egg-shaped objects. |
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Pololu MinIMU-9 Gyro, Accelerometer, and Compass $23.94 You want to know where you are in space? The Pololu MinIMU-9 does it all - an L3G4200D 3-axis gyro and an LSM303DLM 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer onto a tiny 0.9″ × 0.6″ board. |
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3.7V 110mAh LiPoly battery for E-Textiles $8.34 What makes this battery special for E-textiles? Built-in current limiting for safety. |
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Lithium Ion (LiPoly) Battery - 110mAh 3.7V $8.34 Lithium polymer battery, but darn small! |
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Raspberry Pi S.A.F.E. (for B+ and V2) $7.50 The Raspberry Pi S.A.F.E. is upgraded to accommodate the Pi V2 and B+ models. |
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So, didja all have a good Holiday Break? Yeah, we did too. Need a vacation to recover from the vacation... Enough chit-chat: Just a quick note to let you know we're expecting a bit of an outage January 6th at 2am MST (that's -7GMT, I think). Our server is being affected by an upstream upgrade […]
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