We gave Grant a bit of the afternoon to put together a demo robot using the GM10. What project? Ah, the venerable Herbie, of course! Construction details (and a big pic) are on the motor detail link. Oh, and there's a video too! Read More...
New Vibe Motors!
Dave Hrynkiw
September 21, 2006
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 overlords to Solarbotics...
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We've been BoingBoing'd!
Thanks to Gareth Branwyn and his 2006 Holiday Gift Guide on Street Tech our new "Herbie the Mousebot" is featured on BoingBoing. For those who don't know BoingBoing is "A Directory of Wonderful Things."
LANL Workshop Update
We've got confirmation from the Santa Fe Art Institute that they are indeed handling the registration. Contact Brandy at (505) 424 5050 for registration details, or email her at info@sfai.org. Remember, this will most likely be the last hurrah for the event on May 3-6, 2001, so come now, or never again! Read More...
Wednesday Cool Links: Aquatop, Autopilot...
We are going places! And coming back! And going again! Does that sound familiar? I think I said that before. Yeah, that’s what we do, we are unstoppable indeed. In this case, we are very excited to be going to the Open Hardware Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a really soon – on […]
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