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Lithium Ion (LiPoly) Battery - 110mAh 3.7V $8.34 Lithium polymer battery, but darn small! 3.7V 110mAh LiPoly battery for E-Textiles $8.34 What makes this battery special for E-textiles? Built-in current limiting for safety. SparkFun Pi Wedge B+ $9.55 A prototyping Wedge for Raspberry Pi B+ that allows you to use a shield and a protoboard […]

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 […]

We've had a great email come in from "Team Wazio", who are using our GM19 gear motors in their ant/fairyweight battlebots. Neat construction details - worth a look-see! (Yes, we know they're using the RW2 wheels and we're sold out, but we're taking care of that...)

Fixed a reset problem in the sumo code, turns out the a If...Then statement does not store its location on the stack. Ergo the return instruction at the bottom of the turn function was pulling a random location. Anyway a change from a return to a goto and everything is shipshape, savvy? Then download the […]