Solarbotics boards HVWTech!

Dave Hrynkiw
April 1, 2007








SB Eats HVWTech!

Yes, it's true. After years of working our fingers to the bone inserting
jumper wires on breadboards to make unusually robust controllers for robots out
of discrete & logic chip elements, Solarbotics has seen the light!
We've put on our eye-patch, hoisted the jolly-roger, and swung along-side to
board the HMS HVWTech.com !


That's right - we've hijacked HVW Technologies, that prim and proper proprietor of embedded
microcontroller systems. We'll we working to get our keyboarding skills up to speed with all this new-fangled "programming" we've heard so much about....

Yaaarrrr!

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