This mini-sumo design by Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin features our wheels, and one of our favourite building materials, Sintra. We can't laser-cut sintra (PVC=bad stuff when burned), but milling it works well, as this builder shows. The asymmetric motor layout works, as proven by this contest-winning design (scroll to the bottom of the page).
Solarbotics Event Sponsorship
Dave Hrynkiw
September 13, 2005
Brian Fields is heading up a new BEAM botting competition which Solarbotics is proud to be in association with. To borrow from the website:
To enter this contest all you have to do is build the smallest robot you can in one of these three categories
Turbot, Walker, or Photovore. This contest is much like ChiuÂ’s contest way back when but, I just added two more categories. This contest is totally free and anyone can participate in it.
Soooo, get building!
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Closin' for Easter
It's Easter Break, and we at Solarbotics are shuttin' down for the weekend as of Thursday. See you Monday Morning!
As with baking...
...DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE OVEN. You'll burn the cookies while eating the dough! Just got a new LOUD oven timer to make sure somebody is standing over the PCBs when the timer is about up. Pick and place machines tend to drown out gentle oven beeps!
Pummer Flower n' SparkFun Stuff
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with deep regret that I present you with our last news post of August. Next week will become September, which causes uncontrollable weeping for students, parents of students, and anyone who was ever a student. Lots of pain all around. Heck, some of the Calgary trees are already starting to […]
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