We've been working on testing our Sunceram Solarcells for real-world performance. Our first test is under direct sunlight, and we tried our best to get accurate data under ideal conditions - summer solstice, during the brightest hours of the day. As we're located in Calgary (lat:51.050N), Canada, you may get slightly different results due to […]
The return of the MCM...
Dave Hrynkiw
May 7, 2007
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 that, but it's cool to have something you can tear apart and not feel guilty about!)
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