We are excited to announce that it is now official - we are going to the MakerFaire Bay Area! Solarbotics will be in the Maker Shed May 17 & 18, 2014 with some brand new product. Come check it out if you are around.
We've been playing with the Pick and Place machine, and thought about new projects. This one, besides just being plain handy, offered us a simple project to start adding surface-mount parts to!
The Ardweeny is proving to be a popular way to make a breadboard-friendly Arduino-clone, but after the prototyping is done, you still have to figure out how to get your Ardweeny into the real world.
Here's the new Ardweeny BackPack, in both plain and SMD LED version. Plug your Ardweeny into this carrier, featuring:
One of our first tests was using an Ardweeny for a dual-scale thermometer, ranging -50 to +50ºC on an analog (servo) scale, and 18 to 32ºC on the bargraph, on a laser cut base. It's a work-in-progress, but the cutting files & Arduino source code are available on the resource page.
We are excited to announce that it is now official - we are going to the MakerFaire Bay Area! Solarbotics will be in the Maker Shed May 17 & 18, 2014 with some brand new product. Come check it out if you are around.
In my recent wanderings in the world of overly-cheerful financial advise, I stumbled upon this budgeting theory that says that to feel comfortable about your moneys, or lack thereof, you gotta be living on your last month's earnings. Let's leave out the question of how anyone would pull it off, and just say that I […]
(Thanks for the interest - welcome Chris to the team!) Our IT task at Solarbotics have grown beyond "Did you try turning it off and then on again?", so we're in the hiring market for an IT Guru & website manager. Please, we're only interested in applicants that can work here, in Calgary, Alberta. Sorry, […]
We're making the trip out to Robomaxx in Grants Pass, Oregon October 11-12. Gonna be there? Hunt down the dude in the cowboy hat wearing the "Solarbotics" Shirt. That'll be me. Maybe I'll have samples of our gearmotors burning a hole in my pocket. If it isn't me, tell him to give back my hat […]
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