Well, we had a fun time at this year's Western Canadian Robot Games! Especially since Solarbotics' own Grant McKee won advanced minisumo with "Ender's Wraith", and although he also placed 2nd with "S.S. Solo" (but wasn't legally able to win 2 spots), the third place bump up went to...me! Dave Hrynkiw, with 2Strong2Bad! Besides the […]
PumLantern Lantern CC2.5 A-SA released!
Dave Hrynkiw
June 19, 2009
Hi All.
We've been having such fun with the PumLantern shells, we thought we'd share the love. Download the zipfile with several file formats under "resources" for the K PL kit!
It's released under the Creative-Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 Canada license.
We use a laser to cut ours out, but there's nothing saying a steady hand with an X-Acto blade wouldn't do the same thing.
Let us know if you do anything with the design. We'd love to see what you come up with!
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