We've churned out another Bicore Experimenter's PCB project: The "Bare Bones PhotoVore". This is an elegant little circuit, which offers the functionality of a basic photovore (with tactiles) all on a very simple circuit. Ours is solar-powered by a Miller Solarengine, but if you wanted to build one with a battery, your parts count would […]
Solarbotics is, um.. out of power...
Dave Hrynkiw
April 4, 2013
There's a power failure in our area this morning, so what to do... Hey, let's take the staff out for breakfast! So since the phones are down, the server is down, the lights are out, and there's a sticky-note on the front door saying as much, we're not open. Not for another hour or two, anyways. Website should still be functional, and we'll be back to processing orders shortly.
And yes, we see the irony of a Solar-power robot/electronics company not having any power. It's pretty cloudy today anyways, so even if we unleashed our solar-powered hoard of robots, we should only be able to generate enough power for another post and a tweet or three...
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