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 […]
Readin', Writin', & Instructablesin...
Dave Hrynkiw
March 20, 2010
Well, it's been a few weeks since the last update. We have a few big projects on the burner - we're not quite ready to make any announcements yet, but keep your eyes open in the next few months.
But don't fret - there are some things we can share with you this week. For instance, we've just brought in two new books from Make:
- Make: Electronics - Learn basic components and principles through "learn by discovery" experiments
- Maker's Notebook - 150 pages of engineering graph paper, helpful information/charts, and stickers
But wait, there's more!
Rudy, one of our most excellent interns, has made an Intructables for upgrading an Ardweeny with socket headers and stronger pins. Check it out here!
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Absolute Beginner's Guilde to Building R...
This is Gareth Branwyn's latest book on robotics. Why should you care? Well, our own Dave Hrynkiw (dat be me) was honoured with the task of tech-editting it. It's a fun read, with some BEAM and not-so-BEAM projects, so if you're a raw newbie to robotics, this belongs on your bookshelf next to "Junkbots, Bugbots […]
Canada Day Holiday
Solarbotics will be closed for the July 1st Canada Day celebrations. We gotta let our people have fun some of the time...
The return of the MCM...
Remember many, many moons back when Solarbotics was a young company, with just a few hacker-type objects to offer the robotics community? One of these items was the "Metal Cassette Mechanism", and was the heart of a great many Solarengine Kit. Hail the return of the almighty MCM! (Ok, it isn't as earth-shaking as all […]
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