Solarbotics at Calgary Expo Holiday Mark...

As Panasonic is no longer manufacturing their line of Sunceram solar cells, we've been on the hunt for suitable replacements. Here's our first find - the SCC3733! It's a polycrystaline cell in an epoxy casing, so it's a bit heavier, but much, much less prone to breaking or burning off of the solder-pads. It's also […]

We've been researching a manufacturer for a shiny new product we are working on (shhh, don't tell anyone and stay tuned for the reveal!). What we have been looking for is a metal spinner. Metal spinning, also known as spin forming, spinning, or metal turning most commonly, is a metalworking process by which a disc […]

Ladies and gentlemen! Regular men! Children with fake IDs! Plowing through our vast inventory of things to announce, today in the glorious colours of Raspberry Pi, here we go: Raspberry Pi 2 Bundle $62.24 Get started with the Raspberry Pi V2 Bundle. Includes the Raspberry Pi V2, Case, 4GB NOOBS OS memory card, and 5.5V […]

Well, it looks like we somehow managed to walk away from the Maker Faire unscathed. Going to the beach afterwards, though, has left us with some residual sunburns to suffer through. Thankfully, we got to return to some local weather that is wet, grey, and generally miserable. But enough of that! On with some neat-o […]