Well, 50 years ago today, the Regency TR-1 transistor radio was unleashed on the masses. As the first transistor-based radio on the market, it made a splash. And here we are, 50 years later, making robots out of the same technology. Regenchy TR-1, Solarbotics salutes you!
Thursday Cool Links: Switch Sign, Blinky...
Solar botics
July 18, 2013
Wednesday naturally turns into Thursday, so the links seamlessly migrated from Wednesday to Thursday too... They are not allowed to Friday though, otherwise they will turn into pumpkins. Er, I mean Friday-not-so-cool links. Which will be just unacceptable!
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Hello World. A sign built from 5,000 rocker switches. An enormous grid made of 5,000 orange rocker switches by Valentin Ruhry. They illuminate when on to create whatever message/image. |
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3D printing free standing liquid metal microstructures 3D printing liquid metals. We've played with solder & soldering irons for a long time, and this looks...familiar! |
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We’ve found the awesome singularity A tardis and a transformer rolled into one, 3D printed. Created by [Nonnef], see it on Instructables. |
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Programmable Toys: Blinky Box! A custom toy for a two-year-old programmed to change light patterns based on buttons pressed. Reprogrammable for more complexity! |
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The tiniest arcade cabinets you’ve ever seen Half a dozen of arcade cabinets shrunk x20, with real LCD screens and glowing coin acceptor slots, qualify for the cutest thing in the category of nostalgic (by [Dave]). |
The illegal migration of links is strictly prohibited! By me. I'm gonna go hammer them down with nails so they are not tempted to run away, and keep them like that until next Wednesday when I hope I can catch them on time before they start packing up to leave.
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Good Friday & Canada Post
This is a quick note to let all our customers know that Canada Post will not be shipping on Monday. And we are closed tomorrow March 30th for Good Friday!
New RoboRapter/RS2 info!
Just got a note from Chance "knitsu" Brown, who's got a new flurry of RoboSapien & Roboraptor stuff on his website. Take a boo here! Oh, did I forget to mention RoboRaptoronline?
Circuit: Stepper Motor
This is a neat little one-chip circuit we originally tuned for use with our "SM1" Stepper motors. We've presently sold out of the motor, but this circuit has proved to be a good unidirectional (1-way) driver for small stepper motors.
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